1. Between the ages of five and seven, most children are in the ____________________ stage of cognitive development.
2. How individual children function cognitively depends on ______________________________ and ______________________________.
3. The theorist associated with classical conditioning is ________________.
4. When children observe how others behave and then copy that behavior, it is called ____________________.
5. According to Vygotsky, the hypothetical environment in which learning and development take place is called the _____________________________________________.
6. Middle childhood is a time when the ability to use language ______________________________.
7. Howard Gardner is known for his theory of ___________________________________.
8. One activity that will help children learn to use language is ______________________________.
9. Elaborated code refers to ______________________________ language.
10. Children in China develop the competencies expected of them by __________________________________________________.
11. Children in middle childhood acquire as many as _____words a day and by 5th grade have a __________ word vocabulary.
12. State the basic beliefs of behaviorist theory about achieving desired behavior in children.
13. How did Bandura add to behaviorist theory?
14. State the limitations of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory.
15. State the concerns expressed by critics of Piagetian theory.
16. What is meant by code-switching in children’s language?
17. Gardner recently added an eighth intelligence. What is it?
