WGU D167 Educational Psychology and Human Development of Children and Adolescents – 100% Solved

WGU D167 Educational Psychology and Human Development of Children and Adolescents – 100% Solved Who's Stages: preconventional, conventional, postconventional Kohlberg's stages of moral development social contract and universal ethical principle Postconventional good boy + good girl and law + order conventional obedience vs punishment and individualism premoral stage behaviorism, operant conditioning Skinner Social Development Theory Vygotsky the support for learning and problem solving that encourages independence and growth Scaffolding "private speech" - children use it to communicate socially and to self-regulate and guide themselves step-by-step egocentric speech language acquisition device Chomsky infants and toddlers "think" with their eyes, ears, hands, and other sensorimotor equipment. They cannot yet carry out many activities inside their heads Piaget believed 1. sensorimotor 2. preoperational 3. concrete operational 4. formal operational Piaget's stages of cognitive development 1. The Babbling Stage 2. The Holophrastic Stage 3. The Two-Word Stage 4. The Telegraph to Infinity Stage Stages of First Language Acquisition the period when children begin using the words in their small productive vocabulary one word at a time holophrastic period early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words telegraphic stage in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities sensorimotor stage in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic preoperational stage in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable