Ch 8 Understanding Human Development Vocab

The sharing of dialogue between a teacher and student through questioning, with the goal of further understanding and expanding knowledge is known as:

• Scaffolding

• Socratic Learning

• Cognition

• Perceptual Learning

Physical skills involving larger muscles of the body, such as the legs, hips, back, and arms, are referred to as:

• Gross Motor Skills

• Cognitive Development

• Physical Development

• Fine Motor Skills

Explanations that researchers formulate about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change over time are called:

• Behaviorism

• Developmental Theories

• Experiential Learning

• Cognitive Development

Definition: a theory that suggests students take new knowledge and interact with it by forming hypotheses, testing it, and making decisions on whether or not to add it to their learning.

• Scaffolding

• Constructivism

• Behaviorism

• Cognition

Definition: the theory that states that people tend to repeat behaviors that have a positive result or are reinforced.

• Operant Conditioning

• Cognition

• Observational Learning

• Classical Conditioning

Definition: the theory that behaviors can be associated with responses.

• Operant Conditioning

• Observational Learning

• Negative Reinforcement

• Classical Conditioning

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

• Experiential Learning

• Social-emotional Development

• Operant Conditioning

• Socratic Learning

Definition: helping a child learn more by working with or collaborating with more knowledgeable peers or with the teacher.

• Operant Conditioning

• Development

• Zone Of Proximal Development

• Scaffolding

Definition: physical skills involving smaller muscles in the body, such as the hands and wrists.

• Physical Development

• Fine Motor Skills

• Cognition

• Gross Motor Skills

Definition: the level between what a child can do or learn on their own and what the child can achieve with the help and encouragement of a teacher or peer with more skills and knowledge.

• Cognitive Development

• Zone of Proximal Development

• Operant Conditioning

• Scaffolding