DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY MIDTERM EXAM
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Lev Vygotsky - believed that children actively construct their knowledge base through interactions
with more skilled people. That might be teachers, parent, and even older children
Social cultural theory of development - Viewed development as an apprenticeship for "real" life
Tools of culture - Reading, language, computers - to be successful
Children will master this best when working in a - Zone of Proximal development
Children will master this gaining of skills best when working in a - Zone of Proximal development
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) - Range of tasks too difficult for child to master alone; can be
mastered with guidance and assistance from more-skilled person
Scaffolding - Changing level of support over course of a teaching session to fit child's current
performance level and to help increase their knowledge and thought so they can advance, removing
that support when no longer needed
Inner Speech - An important tool of thought
Piaget - children actively engage in the world around them and develop ways of thinking in response
to that interaction
Piaget says - children have Schemes or scripts
As we mature we use - Assimilation
And Accommodation to use - new information
Equilibration - Explanation of cognitive shift (qualitative) from one stage of thought to next
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Lev Vygotsky - believed that children actively construct their knowledge base through interactions
with more skilled people. That might be teachers, parent, and even older children
Social cultural theory of development - Viewed development as an apprenticeship for "real" life
Tools of culture - Reading, language, computers - to be successful
Children will master this best when working in a - Zone of Proximal development
Children will master this gaining of skills best when working in a - Zone of Proximal development
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) - Range of tasks too difficult for child to master alone; can be
mastered with guidance and assistance from more-skilled person
Scaffolding - Changing level of support over course of a teaching session to fit child's current
performance level and to help increase their knowledge and thought so they can advance, removing
that support when no longer needed
Inner Speech - An important tool of thought
Piaget - children actively engage in the world around them and develop ways of thinking in response
to that interaction
Piaget says - children have Schemes or scripts
As we mature we use - Assimilation
And Accommodation to use - new information
Equilibration - Explanation of cognitive shift (qualitative) from one stage of thought to next
