Theorist of child development

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Piaget was a constructivist learning theorist - this means?

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Children learn from exploring their environment

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Vygotsky's theory was the Zone of Proximal Development - this means what?

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The gap between what a child is currently able to do and what they might be able to achieve with support

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What allows children to categorise?

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Language

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Skinner was what type of theorist?

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Behaviourist

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Pavlov experimented with salivating dogs to discover?

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When the bell rang, they associated this with food.

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Bruner's 'modes of thinking' for acquiring cognitive skills.

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Enactive, Iconic, Symbolic.

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Locomotive skills are the development of...

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Skills that move the body, and allow for the ability to balance.

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Neurons are brain cells. These must be ............... to be effective.

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Connected together to transmit and receive electrical signals.

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Object permanence

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The recognition that when objects are out of sight, they have not disappeared.

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Mouthing is when children...

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Explore by using their mouths through senses.