Terminologies Flashcards
What is pedagogy?
Teaching of children.
What is andragogy?
Teaching of adults.
What is geragogy?
Teaching of older persons.
What is ageism?
Describes prejudice against the older adult.
What is crystallized intelligence?
Intelligence absorbed over a lifetime, such as vocabulary.
What is fluid intelligence?
Capacity to perceive relationships, reason, and perform abstract thinking.
What is dialectical thinking?
Adult thought processes that go beyond logical problem solving.
What is a personal fable?
Leads adolescents to believe that they are invulnerable.
What is causal thinking?
Child begins to incorporate the idea that illness is related to cause and effect.
What is conservation?
Ability to recognize that the properties of an object stay the same even though its appearance and position may change.
What is syllogistic reasoning?
Ability to consider two premises and draw a logical conclusion from them.
For example, comprehend that mammals are warm-blooded and whales are mammals, so whales must be warm-blooded.
What is egocentric causation?
Children’s attribution of the cause of illness to the consequences of their own transgressions.
What is precausal thinking?
Allows young children to understand that people can make things happen.
What is animistic thinking?
Belief that they can influence natural phenomena.
What is object permanence?
Recognition that objects and events exist when they cannot be seen.
