Cognitive Learning Theories in a Nutshell
Use the Essentials for Working with Young Children textbook as an open book quiz to play this game that reviews common theories in the ECE field.
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Topics of this game:
- Optimal learning environments for cognitive development are ___________-______________.
- The ability for a person to learn, think and develop connections in the brain between brain cells..
- Environments where children are read to, sung to, talked to, and exposed to environmental print. various
- Young children's brains are ___________?
- Young children are ________ _____________?
- Center of the brain cell.
- What kind of relationships should teachers give children?
- Children should have opportunities to explore using their _________?
- Piaget's stage of motor development where children explore and learn about their world through movement and their senses.
- Piaget's stage of development where children begin to think symbolically through play.y
- Piaget's stage of development where children can reason logically about concrete objects or events.
- Piaget's stage of development where children can think abstractly and explore ideas.
- A person's idea of how the world works or what is right about the world based on what they have learned so far.
- Being exposed to new experiences and absorbing them.
- A person altering their current schema or ideas about the world based on new knowledge.
- When our brain works to make sense of the new knowledge.
- Understanding the amount of something does not change based on the shape or form it takes.
- Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development
- Supporting a child when they learn a new skill through social interaction, modeling and relating to the child's cultural interests.
- A philosophy and method of working with young children based on the work of Maria Montessori.
- A type of Montessori lesson in 3- steps inspired by the work of Vygotsky.y
- What the Montessori Method refers to Free Choice time.
- Periods in a child's life where they are most focused on learning a new skill, according to Montessori.
- The people and places in a child's life who are most influential.
- The person in the center of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory.
- The relationship between the people within the child's Microsystem..
- Situations, places, people who do not always play a direct role in influencing the child, but whose decisions could influence the child.
- The community, culture and social norms in which the child lives.
- According to Maslow, these needs include food, water, shelter and rest.
- Abraham Maslow's Theory of Self- Actualization.
- Achieving one's full potential.
- How many intelligences did Howard Gardner propose so far?
- Learning through the body and hands.
- Understanding yourself.
- Understanding others.
- Understanding objects in space around yourself, on paper, etc.
- Understanding living things and nature.
- Play where children explore their surroundings between ages 0-2.
- Play where children begin planning and creating, using toys and materials.
- Play where children begin to involve others in their dramatic play activities.
- The type of game where children are concerned about the different roles they will play.
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