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Educational Psychology & Development of Children and Adolescent
1. Piaget: Believed we learn from interaction with peers and environment
2. Preconventional: All about me
3. Conventional: All about rules or laws
4. Postconventional: All about others
5. Kohlberg: Stages of Moral Development- Preconventional, Conventional, Post-
conventional
6. Chomsky: Theory of Universal Grammar- Innate/Biological
7. Babbling- 6 to 8 months: Consonant-vowel combinations (ba-ba, ma-ma)
8. Holophrastic- 9 to 18 months: Single words represent a sentence (up, juice,
mine)
9. Two-Word- 18 to 24 months: Mini sentences (doggy bark, me play)
10. Telegraphic- 24 to 30 months: Vocabulary increases. Use mostly nouns and
verbs, omits auxiliary words (Carrie want ball, I good boy today)- early multiword
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, stage
11. Later multiword stage- 30+ months: 5+ word sentences, fastest vocabulary
increase. Sentences formed with improving grammar, structure
12. Skinner: Operant conditioning and language development- children learn lan-
guage based on reinforcement
13. Operant Conditioning and Language Development: Children learn lan-
guage based on reinforcement, learn language through imitating, prompting,
shaping, they associate words with meanings, correct utterances are positively
reinforced- Skinner
14. Vygotsky: Social approach to language development
15. Social Approach to Language Development: language develops through
social interactions, children need interpersonal interactions, Zone of Proximal De-
velopment (ZPD), scaffolding (temp support), Private speech (talking to yourself)
16. Spearman: General intelligence (g factor)
17. Thurnstone: 7 factor intelligence
18. Sternberg: successful intelligence
19. Gardner: Multiple intelligences
20. Behavioral theory: teacher directed, basic skills, direct instruction, immediate
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Educational Psychology & Development of Children and Adolescent
1. Piaget: Believed we learn from interaction with peers and environment
2. Preconventional: All about me
3. Conventional: All about rules or laws
4. Postconventional: All about others
5. Kohlberg: Stages of Moral Development- Preconventional, Conventional, Post-
conventional
6. Chomsky: Theory of Universal Grammar- Innate/Biological
7. Babbling- 6 to 8 months: Consonant-vowel combinations (ba-ba, ma-ma)
8. Holophrastic- 9 to 18 months: Single words represent a sentence (up, juice,
mine)
9. Two-Word- 18 to 24 months: Mini sentences (doggy bark, me play)
10. Telegraphic- 24 to 30 months: Vocabulary increases. Use mostly nouns and
verbs, omits auxiliary words (Carrie want ball, I good boy today)- early multiword
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, stage
11. Later multiword stage- 30+ months: 5+ word sentences, fastest vocabulary
increase. Sentences formed with improving grammar, structure
12. Skinner: Operant conditioning and language development- children learn lan-
guage based on reinforcement
13. Operant Conditioning and Language Development: Children learn lan-
guage based on reinforcement, learn language through imitating, prompting,
shaping, they associate words with meanings, correct utterances are positively
reinforced- Skinner
14. Vygotsky: Social approach to language development
15. Social Approach to Language Development: language develops through
social interactions, children need interpersonal interactions, Zone of Proximal De-
velopment (ZPD), scaffolding (temp support), Private speech (talking to yourself)
16. Spearman: General intelligence (g factor)
17. Thurnstone: 7 factor intelligence
18. Sternberg: successful intelligence
19. Gardner: Multiple intelligences
20. Behavioral theory: teacher directed, basic skills, direct instruction, immediate
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