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What were the four characteristics of piagets theory?

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  • Constructionist (believed kids are ‘little scientist’ who conduct experiments to find out about the world around them. Don’t need incentives to do this, they want to understand)
  • Stage theory
  • Invariant sequence
  • Universal
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What was Piagets theory on nature and nurture in child development?

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Nurture is the care given by caregivers and child’s experiences.
Nature is child’s ability to act, perceive, learn from experiences and motivation to adapt (respond to environment in a way that meets ones goals) and to organise (integrating observations into coherent knowledge).
Part of a child’s nature is to respond tot their nurture judging from the last two.

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Sources of continuity in Piagets theory of child development?

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  • assimilation
  • accommodation
  • equilibration
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What is assimilation?

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Incorporating incoming information into concepts that are already understood
(e.g. curly hair = clown)

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What is accommodation?

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Adapting current understandings in response to new information/experiences
(not a clown coz not in a costume or doing silly things)

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What is equilibration?

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Balancing assimilation and accommodation to create stable understanding
(aligning concept of clown with new information)

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What are the three stages of equilibriation?

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Equilibrium: child is happy with their understanding of a construct
Disequilibrium: New information leads the child to realise their understanding is inadequate
-Finally the child develops a more sophisticated understanding and a more stable equilibrium

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What are the sources of discontinuity in Piagets theory?

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-His belief that children’s cognitive development happens in 4 discrete stages

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What are the characteristics of the source of discontinuity in Piagets theory?

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Qualitative changes:
-e.g. children assess morality based on outcome, but then move onto intent - measuring totally different criteria
Broad applicability:
-type of thinking at a particular stage can be applied across aw wide range of topics and contexts
Brief transitions
-between each stage where both types of thinking are flicked between
Invariant sequence:
-everyone experiences every stage in the same order

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What are Piagets 4 stages of cognitive development?

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  • Sensorimotor stage
  • Preoperational stage
  • Concrete Operational stage
  • Formal operational stage
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What age range is the sensorimotor stage?

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0-2

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What age range is the preoperational stage?

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2-7

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What age range is the concrete operational stage?

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7-12

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What age range is the functional operational stage?

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+12

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What happens in the Sensorimotor stage of development?

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0-2 yrs

kiddies use SM abilities to explore world, develop intelligence and express themselves. Live mostly in the here and now

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What happens in the preoperational stage of development?

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2-7 yrs
kiddies can express themselves verbally and are capable of mental imagery. this means they can have a better understanding of sophisticated concepts but still can’t perform mental operations (forms of reasoning - e.g. that pouring water into a different shaped glass doesn’t change the volume)

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What happens in the concrete operational stage of development?

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7-12

  • children can complete conservation problems
  • can’t yet think/reason systematically
  • limited to concrete concepts
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What happens in the concrete functional stage of development?

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+12

-children can think and reason systematically and hypothetically and about abstract concepts

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Changes that occur in the Sensorimotor phase:

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  • reflexes develop
  • development of object permanence after 1 yr
  • deferred imitation - remember actions carried out by a playmate or parent and imitate them later (minutes or days)
  • interest shifts from their own bodies to world around them
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Changes that occur in the pre operational stage:

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  • Development of symbolic representations (e.g. a banana as a gun. over this phase shift from personal ones to ones taken from society)
  • Egocentric communication
  • Egocentric thinking
  • Spatial and verbal egocentralism
  • Centration
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What is egocentric communication?

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Assuming the person you’re talking to already has the same knowledge/information as you

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What is egocentric thinking?

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'’why doesn’t your week old brother walk’’

‘‘he’s lazy’’

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What is centration?

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When children tend to focus on one striking feature of the object, and ignore other relevant information. e.g. weights, water, buttons, clay sausage

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What are the different types of conservation errors?

What is responsible for conservation errors?

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Numbers and solid

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Changes that occur in the concrete operational stage:

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  • Children can’t perform pendulum test

- can complete some conservation tasks (numbers but not solids)

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What is unique about the functional operational stage:

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  • acquisition of this stage is not universal but depends on social environment/stimulation
  • acquisition of this stage doesn’t mean adolescents will reason in this way, only that they have the ability to
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What are the critiques of piagets theory?

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  • Vague and doesn’t focus enough on cognitive processes behind development
  • Underestimates childrens abilities
  • Presents development as far more consistent than it is (kids can completer conservation of numbers tasks before conservation of solid quantity)
  • Underestimates social impact on child development
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Experiments critiquing Piaget’s theory:

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Light Buckingham and Robbins
-if clear reason given for changing the liquid recepticle, children knew it was the same volume. They interpret adults intentions as having meaning

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What did Vygotskys theory focus on?

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The effects of social interaction and culture in the development of children, and on the guide and structure provided by more able people in order to aid development.

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How did Piaget and Vygotskys views on change throughout development differ?

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Vygotsky thought of change as continuous and quantitative whereas Piaget thought it was mostly discontinuous and qualitative

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What were he two levels in Vygotskys theory?

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Higher mental function

Lower mental function

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What is cultural mediation?

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The passing on of knowledge through generations via social interactions with others

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What are cultural tools?

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Things such as language, values, skills and other symbols that represent shared knowledge of culture

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What is lower mental function?

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Thought of as elementary mental abilities that are mostly biological and innate and involuntary
include responding to the environment, perception etc

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What is higher mental function?

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-Consciously controlled transformation of lower mental functions using cultural mediation, voluntary attention and cultural tools, conceptual thought and logical planning

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Internalisation

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When a child learns a cultural tool and can use it independently

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P vs V speech:

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  • Piaget thought it was egocentric speech

- Vygotsky believed it was a learning tool

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Process of internalisation of speech:

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  • helps guide behaviour
  • First may come from adult or parent as instruction
  • Children use it to instruct themselves aloud (4-6)
  • Gradually becomes less aloud and more internalised through whispering and mouthing
  • children with behavioural problems use it for longer
  • external to internal comes with age and experience
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What did vygotsky say about the inclinations to teach and learn?

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They’re uniquely human and appear around age 2 - children point out thing they think are interesting

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How does culture effect cognitive development?

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the content of what children learns is very different across different cultures and can shape thinking (hansel and gretel vs chinese fairytale tasks)

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What are the 4 ways children learn? V

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  • Social scaffolding
  • Zone of proximal development
  • Intersubjectivity
  • Guided participation
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What are the types of intersubjectivity?

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  • Social referencing - looking to social partner for how to react in an unfamiliar situation
  • The mutual understanding that people share during communication
  • Joint attention - of both partners on the same thing from the external environment (babies can follow their social partners gaze from 9 months, the faster they show this, the faster subsequent language development is.)
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What is the zone of proximal development?

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-just outside the capability of what a child can do on their own
‘the range of performance for what a child can do on their own and what they can do with help’

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What is social scaffolding?

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A temporary framework provided for a child by someone else to aid the childs understanding of what would otherwise be beyond their capability
more able people provide better social scaffolding (parents better than peers)

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What is guided participation?

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more knowledgable individuals can structure activities in a way that allow younger children to engage in a sort of cultural apprenticeship e.g. young mayan girls and weaving

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What do children use play for?

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-stretching into ZPD by peers
Playing requires rules and roles so allows the child to:
-self regulate behaviour (social development)
-distinguish objects from ideas (conceptual development)

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