FLASHCARD: Learning Theories & the brain

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This person developed the Hierarchy of Needs: Self-Actualization, Esteem, Love, Safety, Physiological

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Maslow

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This person established the Theory of Cognitive Development in four stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operational.

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Piaget

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According to Maslow, the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one's potential.

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self-actualization

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Having to do with an organism's physical processes.

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physiological

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The knowledge that an object exists even when it's not in view.

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object permanence

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The ability to recognize that objects can be transformed in some way, visually or physically, yet still be the same in number, weight, substance, or volume.

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conservation

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In Piaget's theory, the pre-operational child's difficulty taking another's point of view.

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egocentrism

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What is Human Development?

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A gradual process through which humans change from birth to adult hood.

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What is Physical Development?

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The changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height that occur as humans develop from birth through older adult good.

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What is Gross Motor Skills?

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Large muscle movements