WGU D307 Educational Psychology and
Human Development of Children and
Adolescents Graded A
Kohlberg's stages of moral development ✔✔Who's Stages: preconventional, conventional,
postconventional
Postconventional ✔✔social contract and universal ethical principle
conventional ✔✔good boy + good girl and law + order
premoral stage ✔✔obedience vs punishment and individualism
Skinner ✔✔behaviorism, operant conditioning
Vygotsky ✔✔Social Development Theory
Scaffolding ✔✔the support for learning and problem solving that encourages independence and
growth
,egocentric speech ✔✔"private speech" - children use it to communicate socially and to self-
regulate and guide themselves step-by-step
Chomsky ✔✔language acquisition device
Piaget believed ✔✔infants and toddlers "think" with their eyes, ears, hands, and other
sensorimotor equipment. They cannot yet carry out many activities inside their heads
Piaget's stages of cognitive development ✔✔1. sensorimotor
2. preoperational
3. concrete operational
4. formal operational
Stages of First Language Acquisition ✔✔1. The Babbling Stage
2. The Holophrastic Stage
3. The Two-Word Stage
4. The Telegraph to Infinity Stage
, holophrastic period ✔✔the period when children begin using the words in their small productive
vocabulary one word at a time
telegraphic stage ✔✔early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using
mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words
sensorimotor 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
preoperational 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
concrete operational 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 them to
think logically about concrete events
Human Development of Children and
Adolescents Graded A
Kohlberg's stages of moral development ✔✔Who's Stages: preconventional, conventional,
postconventional
Postconventional ✔✔social contract and universal ethical principle
conventional ✔✔good boy + good girl and law + order
premoral stage ✔✔obedience vs punishment and individualism
Skinner ✔✔behaviorism, operant conditioning
Vygotsky ✔✔Social Development Theory
Scaffolding ✔✔the support for learning and problem solving that encourages independence and
growth
,egocentric speech ✔✔"private speech" - children use it to communicate socially and to self-
regulate and guide themselves step-by-step
Chomsky ✔✔language acquisition device
Piaget believed ✔✔infants and toddlers "think" with their eyes, ears, hands, and other
sensorimotor equipment. They cannot yet carry out many activities inside their heads
Piaget's stages of cognitive development ✔✔1. sensorimotor
2. preoperational
3. concrete operational
4. formal operational
Stages of First Language Acquisition ✔✔1. The Babbling Stage
2. The Holophrastic Stage
3. The Two-Word Stage
4. The Telegraph to Infinity Stage
, holophrastic period ✔✔the period when children begin using the words in their small productive
vocabulary one word at a time
telegraphic stage ✔✔early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using
mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words
sensorimotor 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
preoperational 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
concrete operational 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 them to
think logically about concrete events
