Chapter 9 pt.2 Flashcards
Are middle childhood children able to finally understand Class Inclusion (4 cats and 6 dogs)
Yes
What did Piaget say about learning
That learning involves active discovery, instruction should be geared towards the children’s level of development, and understanding the perspectives of others is key in developing cognitive and morality
What did Lawrence Kohlberg believe about moral reasoning?
That Moral reasoning undergoes the same cognitive-developmental patters around the world
What are the three different levels in Kohlberg’s Moral reasoning
Preconventional Level
Conventional Level
Postconventional Level
What is the Pre-conventional level in the three stages of morality
When moral judgements are based on expectations of rewards/punishment, Heinz was not wring to steal the drug because his wife needed it, he can always pay him back
Explain the Conventional stage in the three levels or morality
Don’t want to go against social rules at all, even if they say he should have taken the drug, they still would think its bad
Explain the Post-conventional stage in the three levels of morality
Their reasoning is based off of their own moral standards
What is the “Roots of Empathy” school curriculum
It is designed to teach empathy as a weapon against bullying
What are the 3 key elements In children’s Information processing
- Development of selective attention
- Development of memory skills
- Development of the ability to solve problems
What are the three different types of memory
Sensory memory, Short term memory (working memory), and Long term memory
What would be considered an “elaborative strategy” when working on memory
Relating new material to known material
What is Metacognition and what is Metamemory
Metacognition = awareness and control of ones cognitive abilities
Metamemory = Knowledge on memory and how its retrieved and stored
At an early age, we associate intelligence with …..(3 things)
Academic success, advancement of a job, and appropriate social behaviour
What are the 3 parts of Robert Sternberg theory of intelligence
Analytical intelligence = academic ability
Creative Intelligence = abilities to cope with situations and benefit from experience
Practical intelligence = adapting to the demands of the environment (street-smarts)
Explain Garners “theory of multiple intelligences”
Gardner (like Sternberg) believed that intelligence reflects more than academic ability and can have multiple intelligences (some more then the other)
