It involves the knowledge on how to do things and how skills are executed.
Procedural Knowledge
When can a child start to think abstractly, reason hypothetically, and reflect on moral, philosophical, or future scenarios?
Formal Operational Stage
Maria feels nervous before presenting her project, even though she practiced many times. Which factor is influencing her performance?
Affective Factors
A student continues working on a challenging math problem because she believes effort leads to success. Which factor is at play?
Motivational Factor
After struggling to use the calculator like a remote, the child realizes that the buttons do something different and forms a new idea about how calculators work. What process is taking place?
Accommodation
Who provides guidance or support to help a learner accomplish a task they cannot do alone?
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
A student hears the school bell ring and immediately packs their bag. What type of memory allowed the student to respond so quickly to the sound?
Sensory memory
When a student uses a math skill learned in class to solve a real-life budgeting problem, what type of learning is occurring?
Far Transfer
A student recalls facts learned through a song or rhyme. What memory aid is this?
Mnemonics
What are the three stages of speech development according to Vygotsky?
Social or external speech, Egocentric speech, and Inner Speech
What concept explains why a preschooler covers their eyes and assumes you can’t see them either?
Egocentrism
What kind of transfer happens when a skill is applied in a similar situation (ex. knowing how to ride a bike helps in learning how to ride a motorcycle)?
Near Transfer
What cognitive skill is missing when a child cannot understand that 5 + 3 = 8 also means 8 − 3 = 5?
What are the stages of cognitive development according to Piaget?
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational
What ability is shown when a child recognizes that reshaping clay into a ball doesn’t change how much clay there is?
Conservation
When does a child develop the ability to use symbols, such as words and images, to represent objects or experiences?
Preoperational Stage (2–7 years)
It is a branch of science that studies human behavior.
Psychology
What is the term for the gap between what a child can do alone and what they can do with help?
Zone of Proximal Development
It is the memory for ideas, words, facts, and concepts that are not part of the person's own experience.
Semantic Memory
It refers to what individuals know about their cognition in general.
Metacognitive Knowledge
It is the learner’s knowledge about things.
Declarative Knowledge
It refers to the ability to know when and why various cognitive acts should be applied.
Conditional Knowledge
It refers to cognitive processing directed at achieving a goal for which the problem solver does not initially know a solution method.
Problem Solving
It is the loss of information, either in the sensory memory, short-term memory, or long-term memory.
Forgetting
What term describes the temporary support given to a learner that is gradually removed as they become more independent?
Scaffolding
A student learns to solve word problems in math class and later uses similar strategies to solve a different kind of word problem in a test. What type of transfer of learning is this?
Near Transfer
What concept is being used when a child can correctly arrange objects by size, weight, or length?
Seriation
What process helps students use prior knowledge in new contexts or subjects?
Transfer of Learning
What learning concept or theory emphasizes that social interaction comes before individual understanding?
Sociocultural Theory
It includes the memory of events that happened in a person's life, connected to a specific time and place.
Episodic Memory
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