Psycho Ed Quiz

Front 1

Assimilation

Back 1

When you come to something new, you attempt to classify it in existing schemes

Front 2

Accommodation

Back 2

When your existing schemes don't work, you are forced to create new schema.

Front 3

Schema

Back 3

A mental framework, (ex: a computer file w/ all related info...are clusters of related knowledge (experience, ideas, feelings) in memory...like a manilla folder w/ info on same topic.

Front 4

Limitations to Piaget's Theories

Back 4

1. Alternative explanations exist for most things he observed

Front 5

Limitations to Piaget's Theories

Back 5

2. Understanding cognitive abilities of children 2-7

Front 6

Limitations to Piaget's Theories

Back 6

3. Not considering the impact of culture

Front 7

Limitations to Piaget's Theories

Back 7

4. "The child is not like Rominson Crusoe".

Front 8

Private speech of Vygotsky

Back 8

1. Child learns language by directions from others

Front 9

Private speech of Vygotsky

Back 9

2. Child speaks orally to direct outside environment

Front 10

Private speech of Vygotsky

Back 10

3. Child begins to speak out loud to himself/herself
--> tool by which student thought develops

Front 11

Private speech of Vygotksy

Back 11

4. Child is able to think silently

Front 12

Hereditarians

Back 12

-We speak because we're genetically hot-wired "to speak".
-Noam Chomsky: Language Acquisition Devices (LAD's).

Front 13

Behaviorists

Back 13

-We speak b/c babbling is replaced by parents/family
-B.F. Skinner--> Successive Approximation