Intro to Theorists Vocab

4. coherent set of logically related concepts that seek to organize, explain, and predict data
6. Piaget’s term for changes in cognitive structure to include new information
9. unfolding of a universal natural sequence of physical and behavioral changes
10. totality of non-heredity influences on development (nurture)
13. Kohlberg’s theory (2nd step) which standardizes how authority figures are internalized
17. pattern of change in emotions, personality, and social relationships
18. research method in which behavior is studies in a natural setting without intervention or manipulation
19. the nature of reality based on societally shared perceptions or assumptions

1. research method in which all participants are observed under the same controlled conditions
2. learning based on association of behavior with it’s consequences
3. Bandura’s expansion of social learning theory holds that children learn gender roles through socialization
5. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory that proposes children construct autobiographical memories through conversation with adults about shared events
7. growth of body and brain, including biological and physiological patterns of change in sensory capacities, motor skills and health
8. Vygotsky’s term for the difference between what a child can do alone and what they can do with help
11. inborn characteristics received from the biological parents (nature)
12. Piaget’s term for awareness of two objects that are equal according to a certain measure
13. pattern of change in mental abilities (learning, memory, reasoning)
14. Piaget’s term for incorporation of new information into an existing cognitive structure
15. learning based on the association of a stimulus that does not ordinarily elicit a particular response with another stimulus that does elicit a response
16. Bronfenbrenner’s approach to understanding processes and contexts of child development that identifies five levels of environmental influence