Exam 1

Question 1

Zone of Proximal Development

Answer 1

distance between the child’s individual capacity and the capacity to perform with assistance. functions that are under development

Question 2

means of assistance performance

Answer 2

modeling, contingency management, feedback, instruction, questioning, and cognitive structuring

Question 3

modeling

Answer 3

process of offering behavior for imitation, showing how expecting imitation

Question 4

instruction

Answer 4

telling how, reading about it seperately

Question 5

feedback

Answer 5

telling learner how they did, corrective on wrong or right, immediate as possible, positive and emotional tone

Question 6

Questioning

Answer 6

Assisting and assessing, getting verbal response to know where students are and engaging critical thinkings

Question 7

Piaget’s Constructivist Theory

Answer 7

knowledge developed in a person through internal cognitive processes and their interaction with the environment

Question 8

Schema

Answer 8

Includes all of our knowledge and is organized and can be displayed like a Web

Question 9

Disequilibrium

Answer 9

Thinking is out of balance, confused about logic, need it so we are motivated to learn, create curiosity

Question 10

Equilibrium

Answer 10

State in which opposing forces or influence are balanced, calm state of mind

Question 11

Assimilation

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Fitting new information into an existing schema

Question 12

Accommodation

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Information is so different that you have to either create a new skimmer or greatly alter existing schema

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Development=

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interaction with the physical world + social interactions + biology + equilibration

Question 14

Sensorimotor Period

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birth-2, object permanence

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Object permanence

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the knowledge that continues to exist when they are no longer in view

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Preoperational Period

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2-6/7, egocentrism, confusion of appearance and reality, and causal reasoning.

Question 17

egocentrism

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consider the world from own point of view

Question 18

confusing appearance and reality

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focus on what is in front and not reality

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Precausal reasoning

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use own ideas to understand cause and effect

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Concrete Operational Period

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6/7-12, mentally think of actions and consequences, can think of other views, can have more than one perspective, understand that some things stay the same after altered, can classify.

Question 21

Formal Operations

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(12-19), hypothetical reasoning, metacognitive thinking

Question 22

Scaffolding

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set of methods used to help move a child through stages

Question 23

Three parts of scaffolding

Answer 23

Mediator, language, and shared activities