Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Developmental Psych
Piaget and Vygotsky
28
Psychology
Undergraduate 3
10/21/2010

Additional Psychology Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Qualitative Differences Piaget
Definition
o Younger children think differently
o Contrast with psychometric view
Term
Active Organism
Definition
o Child actively interprets environment
o Contrasts with behaviorist view
Term
Clinical Methods
Definition
Qualitative vs. Quantatative Assessment
Term
Wealth of observations
Definition
o Contributed to an enormous body of research
Term
Scheme
Definition
Used to understand the world
Changes and develops over time
Term
Infant scheme
Definition
Senses and reflexes help them know
Term
Assimilation
Definition
involves incorporating new experiences into our current understanding (schema).
Term
Accomodation
Definition
Involves modifying or adjusting schemas to fit the environment
Term
Sensorimotor
Age, Description
Definition
2 years, Experience through senses and actions
Term
Preoperational
Age definition
Definition
2-6
Representing with images, intuition rather than logical reasoning
Term
Concrete Operational
Age, description
Definition
7-11
Logical thinking
Term
Object Permanence
Definition
Objects that are out of sight are also out of mind
Term
Classification
Definition
Group objects by similarities
Reason by what things look like
Term
Conservation
Definition
Reason of what they look like, cannot realize sameness in identity if appearence changes
Term
Equilibration
Definition
o The balancing of the competing processes of assimilation and accommodation
o Leads to adaptive behavior = knowledge
Term
Egocentrism
Definition
Young people have trouble taking another person's perspective
Term
Major criticisms
Definition
Assesments
Negative results
Follow up studies
Ignored experience
Term
Mature thinker
Definition
Able to move beyond relativism
Term
Transitions in post formal thought
Definition
o Absolutist à Relativist à Mature
Term
Theory of mind
Definition
Understanding of mental states of others. Around 18 months child can understand intentions
Term
Vytovsky vs. Piaget Stages
Definition
V: Continuous and skill specific
P: Coherent wholes
Term
Vytovsky vs. Piaget focus
Definition
V: Process
P: Stage
Term
Vytovsky vs. Piaget language
Definition
V: Mechanism of thought
P: Self talk egocentric
Term
P vs. V acquisition of knowledge
Definition
P focus on individual discovery
V. Focus on discovery through modeling
Term
P vs. V. Learning
Definition
P: Development causes learning
V. Learning causes development
Term
Assesment P vs. V
Definition
P: Performance=competence
V: Assisted performance is highest level attainable
Term
Scaffolding
Definition
• Development of early cognitive competences occurs within the context of collaborative dialogues between a learner and a skillful tutor
Term
Zone of proximal development
Definition
The difference of what they can do independently vs. what they can do with assistance. – Instruction should be somewhere within here.
Supporting users have an ad free experience!