What does IQ tests refer to?
Intelligence Quotient test designed to measure people’s intelligence
Define Intelligence.
Ability and potential to learn, think, and problem solve
What does readiness mean in development?
The idea that children are not ready to learn certain things until they have reached a particular stage of cognitive development
What is symbolic play?
Children play ‘make believe’, where a coat might be a Superhero cape
What are key stages in development?
Age-related stages of development used to organise the education of children
What is active learning?
The idea that children should,not just be sat at a desk and given information but should be actively engaging with their environment to learn from it.
Cognitive development is…
How thought processes change over time throughout childhood. Includes language, memory and perception.
Schemas are…
Mental pictures of the world, like filing cabinets in the brain
Assimilation is when…
New information is incorporated into an EXISTING schema
Accommodation is when
New information is used to alter or CREATE a NEW schema
Object permanence is…
The idea that something still exists even if it’s hidden from view.
Definition of animism
Giving thoughts and feelings to inanimate objects
Egocentricism is…
Only seeing things from your point of view, so can cause a lack of empathy.
Reversibility is…
The ability to be able to think about things in reverse order.
Conservation is…
The ability to understand that even though something might change it’s shape/volume/mass/length remain the same.
Decentration is…
Ability to be able to focus on more than one aspect of a situation.
Seriation is…
The ability to rank things in order
Linguistic humour is…
Playing with words to create jokes and humour
Mindset is how…
A person thinks or their attitudes
Growth mindsets are where…
People think that they can develop their intelligence over time.
Fixed mindsets are where…
People think their intelligence is innate and can’t be changed.
Learning styles is…
The theory that students have different ways of learning, and they would learn better if taught in the style that suits them.
Meaning for learning is…
The idea that students should understand the meaning of what they are being taught, rather than just being drilled information.
