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01/12/2014

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Term

Sensorimotor Stage

(Piaget)

Definition

Information is acquired through the use of senses and motors. 

Birth - 2 years old. 

Term
Schema
Definition
mental constructs/concepts - categories of information
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Assimilation
Definition
fitting new information into schema
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Accomodation
Definition
Schema is modified or made into a new category because it didn't "fit"
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Conservation
Definition
Ability to understand that objects or substances retain their properties of numbers or amounts even when their appearance, shape, or configuration changes.
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Pre-Operational

(Piaget)

Definition

Children think about things symbolically. 

2-6 years old

Term
Pre-operational Example
Definition

What Piaget stage is this child in:

A child is able to use an object to represent something else, such as pretending a broom is a horse. 

Term
Centration
Definition
Only focusing on one property at a time.
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Decentration
Definition
Child can focus on more than one property and understand conservation
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Concrete Operational
Definition
Children demonstraste logical, concrete reasoning.
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Reversibility
Definition
ability to reverse and action or operation
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Animism
Definition
assigning human qualities, feeling, or actions to inanimate objects
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Magical Thinking
Definition

Attributing cause and effect relationships between a child's own feelings and thoughts and environmental events where none exists. 

Ex. A child says "I hate you" to another child and then something bad happens to the other child. 

Term
Scribble Stage
Definition
uncontrolled then controlled scribbles, then naming their scribbles and what they represent.
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Preschematic Stage
Definition

Children begin to develop visual schema. May make people and houses same height. 

Use color more emotionally than logically. 

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Concrete Operational Example
Definition
A child can understand reversibility and conservation.
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Schematic Stage
Definition
Drawings reflect actual physical proportions and colors.
Term
Dawning realism
Definition
Drawings become increasingly representational
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Pseudorealistic
Definition
Ability to reason
Term
Decision
Definition
Reflects adolescent identity crisis
Term
Victor Lowenfeld
Definition
Came up/named the six stages of art development
Term
6 months
Definition
Age when babies respond to hearing their name, turning their heads and eyes towards source of human voices and respond accordingly to friendly and angry tones.
Term
12 months
Definition

Age when children can understand and follow simple one step directions. (Visual cues may be needed)

Child can use one or more words. 

Term
18 months
Definition
At this age children have learned and use 5-20 words correctly.
Term
2 Years
Definition
At this age children have a vocabulary of 150-300 words and can speak in short sentences.
Term
3 Years
Definition
At this age children know 900-1000 words, major body parts, and can speak in three word sentences.
Term
4 Years
Definition
At this age private speech is used and children can understand concept of bigger and smaller.
Term
5 Years
Definition
At this age children use more descriptive words, speak in sentences about 9 words long, can follow three consecutive commands, and understand time concepts.
Term
Recasting
Definition
A teacher restates what a child said but uses the correct language.
Term
Alphabetic Principle
Definition
Concept that letters and letter combinations represent speech sounds.
Term
Categorical Self
Definition

Concrete view of self, usually related to observable opposite characteristics. 

Ex. Child vs. adult, boy vs. girl, short vs. tall, good vs. bad. 

18-36 months

Term
Remembered-Self
Definition
Develops with long term memory, including auto biographical memories and things adults have told children.
Term
Inner Self
Definition
Child's private feelings, desires, and thoughts
Term
Phonics
Definition
A method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system.
Term
Easy Temperament Example
Definition

Timmy is an outgoing, friendly child who gets along well with adults and other children.  He loves new experiences, adapts well to classroom routines, and is rarely upset or angry. 

What temperament does he have?

Term
Slow-to-Warm-Up
Definition

Kevin is quiet and shy and needs time to feel comfortable when faced with new people, new places and new experiences.  

What type of temperament does he represtent?

Term
Difficult
Definition

Andrew is highly active, quick reacting, and intense.  He has difficulty sitting still and paying attention in school and he often overreacts to this teachers and classmates. 

What type of temperament does he represent?

Term
Locus of Control
Definition
The place where we attribute causes for outcome we experience, either externally or internally.
Term
Frued
Definition

Developed 5 stages of personality development 

1. Oral

2. Anal

3. Phallic

4. Latency 

5. Genital

Term
Oral
Definition
Pleasure is strongest in mouth.
Term
Anal
Definition
Childrens pleasure is found in control of anal simmulation. Toilet training occurs.
Term
Phallic
Definition

Children discover their genitals. 

Have unconscious sexual impulses toward opposite-sex parent and unconscious aggressive impulses toward same-sex parent. 

Term
Latency
Definition

Children begin school, make friends, develop new social skills. 

Repress sexual impulses deferring them while developing cognitive and social skills takes priority. 

Term
Genital
Definition
Sexuality reemerges and adolescents are occupied with developing intimate relationships with others.
Term

Id

(Frued)

Definition
Pleasure principles represents the source of our powerful, instincual urges, such as sexual and aggressive impulses.
Term

Ego

(Frued)

Definition
Reality principle represents our sense of self within reality.
Term
Superego
Definition
Conscience represents our sense of morality.
Term
Trust vs. Mistrust
Definition
Children develop a sense of trust when caregivers provide reliability, care, and affection.  A lack of this leads to mistrust.
Term
Autonomy vs. Shame
Definition
Children need to develop a sense of personal control over physical skills and a sense of independece.
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Initiative vs. Guilt
Definition
Children need to begin asserting control and power over the environment. Success in this stage leads to a sense of purpose. Children who try to exert too much power experience disapproval.
Term
Industry vs. Inferiority
Definition
Children need to cope with new social and academic demands.  Success leads to a sense of competence while failure results in feelings that they are less than others.
Term
Instrumental Aggression
Definition
Young preschoolers use it to get what they want by hitting, kicking, and shouting.
Term
Hostile Aggression
Definition
Getting even for wrongs or injuries
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Overt Aggression
Definition
Physical harm or physical threats
Term
Relational Aggression
Definition
Emotional/Social harm; rejecting others, spreading rumors
Term
Kohlberg
Definition
Proposed that people pass through a series of six stages of moral judgement and reasoning.
Term
Punishment and Obedience
Definition
Physical consequences of action to determine its goodness or badness
Term
Instrumental Relativist
Definition
What is right is whatever satisfies your own needs
Term
Good Boy - Good Girl
Definition
Good behavior is whatever pleases others or helps others
Term
Law and order Orientation
Definition
Right is doing one's duty, showing respect for authority, and maintaining the given social order for its own sake.
Term
Social Contract Orientation
Definition
What is right is defined in terms of general individual rights and in terms of standards that have been determined by society.
Term
Universal Ethical Principle
Definition
What is right is chosen by self ethical principles.
Term
Taxonomy
Definition
Ordering of objectives from simple learning tasks to more complex ones.
Term
Behavior Content Matrix
Definition
A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.
Term
Affective Objectives
Definition
Objectives that have to do with student attitudes and values.
Term
Bandura
Definition
Felt that much of learning is not shaped by its consequences but is more efficiently learned directly from a model.  Observational learning happens.
Term
Vicarious Learning
Definition

Learning based on observation of the consequences of others' behavior. 

(Bandura)

Term
Bruner
Definition
Modes of representation are the way in which information or knowledge are stored and encoded in memory.
Term
Dewey
Definition

Curriculum should be based on students' interests and should involve them in active experiences. 

Real life tasks

Teachers inspire a desire for knowledge and facilitate learning. 

Term
Piaget
Definition
Cognitive develpment involves gradual, orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.
Term
Vygotsky
Definition

Proposed that cognitive development is strongly linked to input from others. 

Intellectual development can be understood only in terms of the historical and cultural contexts children experience. 

Development depends on the sign systems that individuals grew up with. 

Term
Sign Systems
Definition
Symbols that cultures create to help people think, communicate, and solve problems - a culture's language, writing or coutning system.
Term
Cooperative Learning
Definition
A method of instruction that has students working together in groups, usually with the goal of completing a specific task.
Term
Word Association
Definition
The connection and production of other words in response to a given word
Term
Individualistic Culture
Definition
Children are encouraged to assert themselves and make their own choices to realize their highest potentials, with the ultimate goal of self fulfillment.
Term
Collectivistic/Socicentric Culture
Definition
High importance on group well being.
Term
Montessori
Definition
Emphasizes children's engagement in self-directed activities, with teachers using clinical observations to act as children's guides.
Term
5 areas of Montessori
Definition

1. Practical Life

2. Sensorial

3. Language Arts

4. Math

5. Cultural Subjects

Term
Information Processing Theory
Definition
Humans process the information they receive, rather than merely responding to stimuli.
Term
Sensory Register
Definition
Stores sensory information long enough for unconsious processes to analyze it to determine whether the input should be brought into working memory, or discarded.
Term
Short Term/Working Memory
Definition

Center of conscious thought. 

Fairly limited capacity, it can hold about seven items for no more than 20-30 seconds at a time.

Term
Long-Term Memory
Definition

Stored representation of all that a person knows. 

Episodic (memory of specific events) 

Semantic (knowledge about the world) 

Term
Fixed ratio
Definition
Introducing reinforcement after a set number of instances of the target behavior
Term
Fixed Interval
Definition
Reinforcement after set time periods
Term
Froebel
Definition

Invented concept of Kindergarten

Emphasized unity of humanity, nature, and God. 

Term

Actualization Theory 

(Rogers)

Definition
All organisms naturally pursue a tendency to actualize or make the best of life.
Term

Law of Effect

(Thorndike)

Definition
We are more likely to repeat behaviors receiving desirable consequences.
Term
Negative Reinforcement
Definition

Rewarding by removing something unwanted.

Ex. Jonny dislikes noisy crowds. One day he wakes up earlier, is taken to preschool earlier, finds it quieter and less crowded; he will want to get up and arrive earlier again.

Term
Positive Punishment
Definition

Introducing an aversive consequence for a behavior

Ex. Johnny refuses to put toys away so he has to clean the entire room. 

Term
Negative Punishment
Definition

Removing a desirable stimulus

Ex. Johnny refuses to put toys away so his tv privelages are revoked.

Term
Screening instruments
Definition
Used to identify those children showing signs of possible problems who need assessments, not to diagnose problems.
Term
Assessment Instruments
Definition
Used to develop and/or confirm diagnosis of developmental disorders or delays.
Term
Test-retest Reliability
Definition
How consistent/stable the results are.  A test can be administered more than once to the same child and the results will be similiar.
Term
Inter-rater Reliability
Definition
How consistent/stable the results are across different individual administrators/raters.  Good reliability means it can be administered at the same place/time with different administrator and have similiar results.
Term
Internal Consisitency
Definition
When a tests individual items correlate strongly with each other and with the total test score. (questions,stimuli, tasks, etc. relate)
Term
Concurrent Validity
Definition
When a screening or assessment instrument yields results compare to those of another instrument who validity has been previously established.
Term
Content Validity
Definition
Whether a test measures the entire content area it purports to measure.
Term
Predictive Validity
Definition
A screening/assessment instrument's prediction of a child's behavior in real life.
Term
Norm-referenced test
Definition
compare a child's test results to those of a comparison group of other children in the same age group, grade, or developmental level. (Standardized)
Term
Criterion-Referenced Test
Definition

Compare a child's test results to a predetermined standard of performance for the child's age group/grade/level. 

(Teacher made) 

Term
Horizontal Teaming
Definition
Teachers who teach the same grade/content and meet regularly with the purpose of improving student learning outcomes.
Term
Vertical Teaming
Definition
Group of educators from different grade levels in a given discipline who work cooperatively to develop and implement a vertically aligned program aimed at helping students acquire the academic skills necessary for success.
Term
Ethnocentrism
Definition
Judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture
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