CORRECT ANSWERS| 2026 UPDATE
infancy birth 2-years - Ans--gross motor skills- hold head up, walking,
crawling
Early childhood- 2 to 6 years - Ans--fine motor skills- love to run, hop, swing
By age 4- print name, eat with untils
By age 6- print letters, use pencils and crayons
middle childhood- 6 to 10 years - Ans--* Slow, steady weight gain
* Speed and coordination improve
* Begin organized sports
* Refinement of fine motor skills
* Improved handwriting
* Drawings more representational
adolescence 10-18 years - Ans--Weight and height increases
Puberty begins
Girls begin puberty before boys
Girls start first and end first
Schemes (Piaget) - Ans--How we organize information
Equilibrium/Equilibration - Ans--Schemes are organized
Disequilibrium - Ans--New info has come in and you do not know what to do
with it (how you feel right now study)
Assimilation - Ans--Information is the same or similar to previous schemas
interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
, accommodation - Ans--Information is new or different schemes must be
created or changed
Ex. Santa not being real
Senisorimotor stage-piaget - Ans--Birth 2 years- 5 senses and gross motor
skills
Preoperational Stage (Piaget) - Ans--2-7 years Preschool, illogical,
Egocentric, I I I
concrete operational stage - Ans--7-11 years, factual and concrete
formal operational stage - Ans--12+ years, highschool and middle school,
abstract thinking and forming hypothesis
MKO (more knowledgeable other) - Ans--Vygotsky's term for someone who
helps a child learn a new concept by working with that child in his/her zone of
proximal development.- we learn best with a mko
zone of proximal development - Ans--the difference between what children
can do with assistance and what they can do alone- just right place to teach
Scaffolding - Ans--the support for learning and problem solving that
encourages independence and growth- asking leading questions, provides
hints and clues
Vygotsky 3 types of speech - Ans--Social, private, silent inner speech
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory stages
Trust vs. mistrust - Ans--0-12 months (being able to rely on parents to care
for them)
Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt - Ans--(1-3 years) Toddlers learn to
exercise their will and do things for themselves, or they doubt their abilities-
independent
Initative vs guilt - Ans--3 to 6 years: To develop the ability to try new things
and to handle failure