Exam 3: Understanding the Developmental Worldview of Children and Adolescents

This system in the ecological model includes environments in which the child interacts on a daily basis, such as the home and classroom milieus:

What two theorists have contributed much to our understanding of how children develop and build on their cognitive skills up to the highest levels of reasoning?

This is the term that describes those behaviors students engage in that provide them with an excuse for failing:

Discuss and describe the ecological model.As a school counselor, how do you see yourself using this model?

List and describe the stages of Kohlberg's moral development model.As a school counselor, how do you see yourself using this model?

School-based professionals need to be familiar with and skilled in the use of developmentally appropriate approaches that match the students' :

Discuss the neurological changes that occur throughout the development of children and adolescents in the impact it has on counseling clients from these age groups.

According to Piaget, this describes the process of children comprehending new concepts by assimilating this information into existing cognitive schema:

In these societies, an individual's sense of self is considered part of a strong social network that includes their families and communities:

The final stage described by Kohlberg was the conventional stage in which individuals are able to consider the perspectives of others in their moral decision-making

In Western societies, particularly North America, the orientation tends to be more collectivistic.

According to Kohlberg, at this level children react to questions of right or wrong based on whether it is rewarded or punished by adults.

When synapses disappear this is called:

A child's ability to understand that individuals might engage in behavior according to their own false beliefs increases between the ages of

Discuss the language development process.How will this affect the way you interact with clients who are children?

While Piaget described distinct stages through which children pass as they organize their thinking, Vygotsky asserted that children had their own unique ways of internalizing information based on their social contexts.

The growing awareness of an internal mental life is referred to as:

By the time children reach the age of six, they will have a vocabulary of about

Attention span has been linked to myelination.