Cognitive Development Flashcards
What is cognitive development?
Cognitive development refers to the student’s understanding of concepts and their cognitive abilities.
How does language influence cognitive development?
Language stimulates cognitive development, and language sophistication influences cognitive abilities.
What role does interaction play in cognitive skills development?
The ability to interact with others while using language helps students develop cognitive skills.
Do students who are deaf or hard of hearing have the same cognitive development capabilities as those with normal hearing?
Yes, students who are deaf or hard of hearing have the same capability for cognitive development as students with normal hearing.
What is the role of an educational interpreter in cognitive development?
The educational interpreter plays a vital role in a student’s cognitive development by communicating concepts.
What is required of a skilled educational interpreter?
A skilled educational interpreter must understand cognitive development and communicate new, abstract, or difficult concepts.
Piagetian approach to cognitive development is what?
A Piagetian approach to cognitive development assumes that it is independent from language development.
How does information enter the mind?
Information enters the mind to stimulate cognitive development through perception of sound, visual information, speech, and touch.
What role does cultural background play in cognition?
Cultural background affects cognition by helping to define what we know, what is important, how we approach new tasks, and how we interact.
Is socialization and play important to cognitive development?
Yes
What are the different levels of abstraction in teacher’s questions?
Using Bloom’s Taxonomy:
Demonstration of knowledge—> remembering facts, recall
Comprehension—> “In your own words describe…”
Application—> using knowledge in a new situation
Analysis—> breaking down information into its components and recognizing patterns
Synthesis—> combining ideas to create something new
Evaluation—> forming their own opinions on the subject
How can organizing a text spatially help students?
Organizing a text spatially may help a student organize the text cognitively.
What is cognitive organization?
Cognitive organization helps students store and remember concepts.
How does repetition aid learning?
Providing students with repetition allows them to see patterns, parallels, comparisons, and similarities, which all help them learn.
When do students learn in terms of cognitive development?
Students learn when there is a conflict between what they think and new information that they receive.
What is a cognitive scheme?
A cognitive scheme is a cognitive structure that organizes information, making sense of experience.
In what domains do students develop cognitive schemes?
Students develop schemes in many different domains: motor, language, thinking, social, etc.
How do students interpret the world?
Students interpret the world and experiences in terms of their cognitive schemes, which have been developed based on previous experiences.
What support do students often need to learn new concepts?
Students often need support to learn new concepts in terms of contextualization, breaking down concepts, etc.
What constitutes effective support for learning new concepts?
Effective support can include practice, repetition, and experience which aid in generalizing a concept.
Does a student’s ability to repeat a concept indicate understanding?
A student’s ability to repeat a concept does not mean the student understands it.
What is better evidence that a student has learned a concept?
When a student can answer questions spontaneously about the concept, or can show that he understands.
Are understanding a concept and being able to talk about it the same?
Understanding a concept and being able to talk about a concept are not the same. However, talking about a concept often helps a student understand it.
What is the goal of education?
The goal of education is for students to acquire thinking skills, not to just memorize facts.
How do students learn according to the text?
Students are like little scientists, trying to explore and figure out how the world works based on what they see, do, and hear.
Do students learn a great deal from exploration, making mistakes, and self-correction?
Yes
What do behavioral approaches to learning propose?
Behavioral approaches to learning propose that positive behavior can be increased by the use of positive re-enforcers. Also that negative behavior can be decreased with punishment or withdrawal of privileges.
What does strict behaviorism not recognize?
Strict behaviorism does not recognize the active cognitive construction on the part of the student. (It focuses on their outward behavior and not their inner thoughts)
