Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory and Information Processing
Ecological & Dynamic Systems Theories
100
First theory to stress the influence of the early parent-child relationship
What is Freud's psychosexual theory
100
Directly observable events: stimuli and responses
What is the focus of the behaviorist approach?
100
The focus of Piaget's theory?
What is the idea that children actively construct knowledge through exploration and manipulation of their world?
100
Similar to Piaget, this theory views children as active, sense-making individuals who adapt to environmental demands.
What is Information Processing theory?
100
Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner)
What is the view that the child develops within a complex system of relationships affected by multiple levels of the surrounding environment?
200
The three structures of the personality.
What are the id, ego, and superego?
200
The role of reinforcers
What is increasing the frequency of a behavior?
200
Sensorimotor stage
What is the period of time where infants use their senses and motor development to explore/learn about their world?
200
Commitment to rigorous research methods
What is a strength of the Information processing theory?
200
The idea that the child influences the parent as much as the parent influences the child.
What is bi-directionality?
300
The first theory to address growth and development across the lifespan.
What is Erikson's psychosocial theory?
300
Modeling or "observational learning"
What is the focus of social learning theory?
300
Pre-operational stage
What is the period of time when children begin to understand symbols such as words and act out their ideas in simple "make-believe"?
300
A socially mediated process of learning and cognitive development
What is Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory?
300
The individual's immediate environment
What is the microsystem?
400
The basic psychological conflict of infancy.
What is trust vs. mistrust?
400
Cognition
What is the current day emphasis of Bandura's theory?
400
The period when children focus on concrete learning skills such as arithmetic and begin to organize thoughts logically?
What is Concrete Operations?
400
Focus of Socio-cultural theory
What is the transmission of culture (values, beliefs, customs) from one generation to the next.
400
The theory based on the notion that the child's mind, body, and physical and social worlds form an integrated system that guides mastery of new skills which is changeable and constantly in motion?
What is the Dynamic Systems Perspective?
500
Autonomy
What is the positive pole of the toddler's psychological conflict?
500
Procedures that combine conditioning and modeling with a goal of decreasing undesirable behaviors and increasing prosocial behaviors.
What is behavior modification?
500
The ability to think sequentially and abstractly.
What is Formal Operations?
500
The essential means of transmission of cognitive processes and skills from society to children.
What is the "more knowledgeable other"?
500
A means of improved understanding of how children alter behavior to attain more advanced functioning