A2 Intellectual Development Flashcards
What is piaget model based on?
Cognitive thinking of children
What are the stages of cognitive development?
Sensorimotor 0-2 years- using senses and watching others.
Pre operational 2-7 years- using symbols, make believe games and they know number but not fully understand
Concrete operational 7-11 years- reasoning begins to be logical.
Formal operational 11-18 years- abstract thinking
What’s the development of schemas?
Equilibrium- the state of cognitive balance between what is understood and experience.
Disequilibrium- state of cognitive imbalance between what is understood and experience.
Accommodation- modifying schemas (knowledge)
What was his tests of conservation?
In operational stage children know the appearance has changed but the quantity stayed the same.
For example a they understand if u more water into another container the volume says the same but they think the amount changed.
What is egocentric thinking?
Children can’t see another person point of view.
What is abstract thinking?
This is problem solving using imagination without being involved.
What is concrete thinking?
The ability to solve problems by physically handled or see.
What is Chomsky model of language?
He believed that language is genetically preprogrammed into children and called LAD (language acquisition device). They learn language through experience of other speaking and language is not taught.
