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| cognitive development | The development of a person’s mental and thinking abilities |
| intelligence quotient | The results of a test designed to measure a child's ability to process information in comparison with children their age |
| Multiple intelligences-Howard Gardner's Theory | Gardner claimed that a basic set of eight intelligences compose unique blends in different people and these may be used simultaneously, complementing each other as people develop their skills or solve problems |
| Linguistic intelligence | The ability to effectivly learn languages, use language to express oneself rhetorically or poetically, and strongly rely on language as a means to remember information |
| Logical-Mathematical intelligence | The capacity to analyze problems logically, carry out mathematical operations, investigate issues scientifically, detect patterns and reason deductively |
| Spacial Intelligence | Involves the potential to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas |
| Musical Intelligence | Involves skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns, the ability to recognize and compose musical pitches, tones, rhythms and runs |
| Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence | The use of mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements to solve problems |
| Interpersonal Intelligence | Is concerned with the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people which allows one to work effectively with others |
| Intrapersonal Intelligence | Having an effective understanding of oneself, to appreciate one's feelings, fears and motivations; enabling one to use such information to regulate his/her life |
| Naturalist Intelligence | The capacity to make consequential distinctions in nature-between plants, animals, clouds, mountains and the like |
| Jean Piaget's Theory | Child thinks in terms of own activities and what they perceive at the moment |
| Preoperational Period | Ages 2-7 years--learn from language and mental images--Oriented inward, learn from concrete evidence, egocentrism--view the world from their own perspective, unable to think in abstract terms..children pretend, and imitate to learn |
| egocentric viewpoint | Looking at a situation only in personal needs and wants, and not caring abo |
| perceptions | Using the senses to acquire information about the surrounding environment or situation |
| Lev Vygotsky's Theory | Wrote that biological development and cultural experience both influenced children's ability to learn. Believed social contact was essential to cognitive development. |
| Maria Montessori's Theory | Children can learn naturally if placed in a prepared learning environment with learning games and classroom is designed so students can learn by themselves. Teachers are facilitators. |
| phonemes | A speech sound that distinguishes one word from another, e.g. the sounds "d" and "t" in the words "bid" and "bit." A phoneme is the smallest phonetic unit th |
| alliteration | Words in a series that begin with the same sounds |
| billingual | Able to speak two languages easily and n |
| moral development | Relating to issues of right and wrong and affecting how people behave |
| Kohlberg's theory of moral development | Moral development takes place in stages and that awareness of other people increases at each stage |
| Urie Bronfenbrenner | Outlined layers of environment that affect a child's development, such as the child's own biology, family/community environment, and society |
