PSY 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 49: Psy, Metacognition, Lev Vygotsky
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Provide a generalization to each of the key terms listed in this section. 0. 1 temperament: a basic and inmate disposition. 0. 2 resilience: ability to overcome circumstances that place them at high risk for psy- chological or even physical harm. 0. 3 object performance: the awareness that objects continue to exist ven if they are out of sight. 0. 4 principle of conservation: the knowledge that quantity in unrelated to the arrangement and physical appearance of objects. 0. 5 metacognition: an awareness and understanding of ones own cognitive processes. 0. 6 zpd [zone of proximal development: created by soviet psychologist lev vygotsky (18961934) and deals with sca olding. Sca olding: provides support for learning: a gap between what children already are able to accomplish on their own and what theyre not quite ready to do by themselves. 0. 7 personality: a collection of learned behavioral patterns by b. f. skinner.
