1. Ch 8: Review & Preview Cognitive Development Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory – ______________________ involves adjusting the support offered during a teaching session to fit the child’s current level of performance. Information Processing – What do we call children’s reflections on their own thought processes, or “thinking about thought” ? Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Education – True or False: Preschoolers understand a great deal about written language long before they are able to read and write. – True or False: Basic arithmetic knowledge must be directly taught. – What are some signs of developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs? Language Development – True or False: Preschoolers learn an average of five new words each day, increasing their vocabulary from 200 words at age 2 to 10,000 at age 6. – A process called ___________ contributes to children’s rapid vocabulary growth over the preschool years. – As children learn grammatical rules, they apply them so consistently that they occasionally overextend the rules to words that are exceptions, a type of error called __________________________.

2. Ch 8: Review & Preview Emotional & Social Development Erikson: Initiative vs. Guilt Self Understanding Emotional Understanding Peer Relations Foundations of Morality Gender Typing Introduction to middle childhood and adolescence Supersizing our Kids

3. Chapter 9 Quiz True or False: Between ages 6 and 8, girls are slightly shorter and lighter than boys. By age 9, this trend reverses. The most effective interventions for childhood obesity focus on the (family / inividual) and work to change (behaviors / environments). Quentin needs to remember the words tree and toaster. If he uses the memory strategy of elaboration, he will __________ a. think of words that rhyme with both. b. imagine a tree with toasters growing out of it. c. write the words several times on a piece of paper. d. say the words over and over to himself. 4.Name and describe two ways in which school-age children add new words to their vocabulary.