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Cognitive Development Flashcards

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Why does Piaget’s theory have a biological bias

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Initial training and education in zoology

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Why is Piaget’s theory described as constructivist

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Children discovering or constructing knowledge of the world through their own activity

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What are schemes

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Mental representations or internal depictions of information that a mind can manipulate

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In Piaget’s theory what is adaptation

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Building schemes through direct interaction with the environment comprising two complimentary activities: assimilation, accommodation

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What is assimilation

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Using current schemes to interpret the external world

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What is accommodation

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Creates new schemes or adjust old ones after noticing the current way of thinking does not capture the environment completely

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What is equilibrium

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Children are not changing their schemes they assimilate more than they accommodate

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What is disequilibrium

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Cognitive discomfort moving from assimilation to accommodation

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What is the process of back and forth movement between equilibrium and disequilibrium

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Equilibration

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According to Piaget’s which stages the most complex because of the greatest amount of accommodation taking place

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The sensorimotor stage

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What are the age groupings for the sensorimotor stage

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Birth to 2 years

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What is primary circular reaction

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Largely motivated by basic needs, repeating chance behaviours, e.g. thumb sucking

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What are secondary circular reactions

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Actions aimed at repeating interesting events in the surrounding environment; around four months

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What method to researchers studying infant cognition often use to determine what infant understand about the physical world

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Violation-of-expectation

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According to Piaget’s categories are ________________ in early infancy, but become more __________________ in later infancy.

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Perceptual, conceptual

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At 7 to 8 months infants develop intentional means-action sequences. What does this mean?

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A problem-solving strategy, such as pulling on a string to obtain a toy.

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What suggests more effective problem-solving strategies that Piaget’s theory suggests?

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As early as 10 to 12 months infants can engage in analogical problem-solving: applying a solution strategy from one problem to other relevant problems.

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In which of Piaget’s stages does socio-dramatic play first occur

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The preoperational stage

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What are Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development?

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Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational.

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Define sociodramatic play

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Make-believe play with others

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What that Piaget’s believe to be the main benefit of socio dramatic play

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Exercising representational schemes

22
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What does current research suggest about make-believe play

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Piaget’s scheme too limited -not only reflects but also contributes to children’s social and cognitive development

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What are the three stages of drawing development in the preoperational stage

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Scribbles; first representational forms (first labelling of shapes); more realistic drawings (5 to 6 years of age)

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Piaget used the three mountain problem to demonstrate what?

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Egocentrism

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What is animistic thinking

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Inanimate objects have lifelike quality such as thoughts and feelings

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What is conservation

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The idea that physical characteristics of an object remains the same even when their outward appearance changes

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What is one cause of preoperational children’s inability to conserve

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Centration: focus on one aspect but neglecting others

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What doe follow-up research on preoperational thought show

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When children are given simplified, relevant tasks, they do better than Piaget’s predicted

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In which age group is concrete operational thought found

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In ages 7 to 11 years

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What things appear in the concrete operational phase

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Conservation: classification: seriation: spatial reasoning

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What is transitive reasoning

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The ability to infer that if a is longer than b and B is longer than C then a must be longer than C

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In order to make predictions and test inferences students must be able to use what kind of thought?

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Hypothetico-deductive reasoning

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What is propositional thought

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Ability to evaluate logic of propositions (verbal statements) without referring to real world circumstances

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What is imaginary audience

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Belief in adolescents that they are the focus of everybody’s attention

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What is the personal fable

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Due to imagine the audience and inflated opinion of their own importance (special and unique)

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What is the core knowledge perspective propose

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Begin life with innate special-purpose knowledge systems known as core domains of thought permitting a ready grasp of new related information

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What is theory theory

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Children as theorists, (test naive theories against real-life and experience when it cannot account for new information)

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Which domain in theory theory develops last

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Biological

39
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According to Vygotski, what is the main force that drives children’s cognitive development

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Effects of social and cultural context

40
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What is the purpose of private speech

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A form of self guidance used when tasks are appropriately challenging

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What is the zone of proximal development

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A range of tasks too difficult for the child to do alone but possible with the help of adults and more skilled peers

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What is scaffolding

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Adjusting support offered to fit the child’s current level of performance

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What is Vygotski’s view of make-believe play

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Source of development in which children advance themselves as they try out new or challenging skills

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What do Vygotskian classrooms promote

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Assisted discovery in which teachers guide children’s learning

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