Chapter 6 Vocabulary

A theory based on the belief that individuals’ behavior is determined by forces in the environment that are beyond their control.

• fine-motor skills

• social-emotional development

• behaviorism

• cognition

Physical changes in size, such as gains in height and weight.

• • social-emotional development

• • cognitive development

• • experiential learning

• growth

The gradual increase in skills and abilities that occurs over a lifetime.

• development

• • experiential learning

• • classical conditioning

• social-emotional development

Taking new knowledge and interacting with it by forming hypotheses, testing it, and making decisions on whether or not to add it to one's learning.

• • Socratic Learning

• • constructivism

• • genetics

• • developmental theories

Learning that takes place when students actually experience and then reflect on their learning.

• • sequence

• • classical conditioning

• • constructivism

• • experiential learning

Involves advances in physical abilities.

• • cognitive development

• • physical development

• • Socratic Learning

• • fine-motor skills

The way people change and improve in their abilities to think and learn throughout life.

• • gross-motor skills

• • cognitive development

• • Socratic learning

• • virtue

The theory that behaviors can be associated with responses.

• • classical conditioning

• • virtue

• • context

• • sequence

Development that includes the areas of relationships and feelings. Individuals must learn social skills and how to care about others.

• growth

• • social-emotional development

• • gross-motor skills

• • Socratic learning

Processes involving thought and knowledge.

• • cognitive development

• • classical conditioning

• cognition

• • operant conditioning