Chapter 7 Flashcards
Piaget(Constructivist approach)
Schemes
Organized patterns of action or thought that people construct to interpret their experience
Set of rules that can be repeated and generalized across situations
Piaget(Constructivist approach) View of Intellectual development
Organization
Combing existing schemes into new/more complex schematic representations
Inital development of grasping skill then be combined and deployed to get access to a facorite toy
Piaget(Constructivist approach)
Adaption
Allows devleoping individuals to adjust to the demands of the environment via complementary
Piaget(Constructivist approach)
Assimilation
Process of interpreting new expericence, in terms of existing schemes
Eg. Calling all 4 legs creature the same name
Piaget(Constructivist approach)
Accommodation
Modify existing scheme to better fit new experiences
Eg. Creating new categories for different pets
Four Stages of cognitive
Sensorimotor
Birth - 2 yrs
Begins interaction with environment
Four Stages of cognitive
Preoperational
2- 7 years
represent the world symbolically
Imaginaryplay
Four Stages of cognitive
The concrete operations
7-11
learns rules such as conservation
Four Stages of cognitive
Formal operations stage
11 - beyond
adult like thoughts, think about the future
Critiques on Piaget’s Theory
- underestimating congnitive abilities of infants and young children
- Wronlgy claiming that broad stages of development exists
- Failing to explain how development came about
- gives limited attention to social influences on cognitive development
Neuroconstructivism
New knowledge is constructed by exisiting knowledge and is constrainted by genetic and envrionmental factors
Cognitive
Vygotsku’s Social cultural
Cognition evolves from the child’s social interactions
Children acquire mental tools by interacting with parents and mroe experienced members of the culture
Zone of proximal development
Gap between what a learner can accomplish independently and what he can accomplish with the auidance of a more skilled partner
Implications
- Knowledge is not fixed
- No test/score can reflect the range of a person’s knowledge
Guiding principle
Actively participate in culturally relevant activites with the aid and support of their parents and other guides.
Bruner(1983)
Parents provide scaffolding for their children’s development
Private speech(age 3 -4 )
- Critical step in development of mature throught
- Forerunner of the silent thinking adults use
- more effective problem solving performance
Speech to oneself that guides one’s thought and behavior
Roberson(2005)
Participants showed superior memory for color named in their own language and exhibited more confusion for color label by the same name.
Critiques on Vygotsky
- Place too much emphasis on social interactions
- Assumed knowledge and understanding of the world is transmitted through social interactions
Piaget v Vygotsky
Animal and human development are the same vs it’s different
Development precedes learning vs learning precedes devleopment
Self knowledge development vs Children and their partners co construct knowledge development
Fischer’s dynamic skill framework
- Not possible to anaylze behavior outside the context in which it occurs
- Behavior emerges from interactions between person and context
- Behavior changes in response to changes in context
Critique to fischer
Over complex, difficult to understand