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Cognitive Development Flashcards

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How many stages of development did Piaget propose?

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There are 4 stages of development.

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What does Piaget’s theory emphasize?

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Active participation and reminds teachers that children’s thinking changes based on the stages of life.

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How is a scheme defined?

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An individuals generalized (speculated) way of responding to the world.

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Adapting new information into an existing scheme through?

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Assimilation, Accommodation, and Equilibrium.

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When people deal with new information that is consistent with their present world view or scheme

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Assimilation

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Assimilation Example:

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A five year old identifies a clog as a type of shoe.

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Must incorporate a new experience that requires them to modify (change, adapt) their old scheme

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Accommodation

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Accommodation example:

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The five year old understands it is made of glass therefore it cannot be a shoe. It does not work the way shoes do. Forces them to change their way of thinking.

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An individual tries to adjust prior schemes with new experiences that do not fit into the existing scheme.

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Equilibration

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Equilibration Example:

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mentally wrestling, trying to find balance.

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At what age does the sensorimotor stage (piaget occur)

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0-2 years

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cognitive development occurs through the body and senses.
Language is absent until the end of the stage.
Egocentrism- inability to understand from someone else’s point of view.

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Sensorimotor

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How do we educate students at this stage?

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Create lessons that encourage stimulation through various shapes, colors, and sizes.
Allow the students to engage with the elements in the environment.

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At what age is he pre-operational stage?

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2-7 years

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Uses symbols but cannot manipulate them
Beginnings of representation
Egocentric (self centered) and socialized speech (the give and take between two people)

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Pre-Operational Stage

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What age does concrete operations occur?

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7-11 years

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How do we educate students at pre-operational stage?

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Encourage the use of language to create a dialogue.

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Can perform mental with use of concrete objects (manipulatives)- not through verbal statements though
Verbal understanding towards the end of the stage.

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Concrete operational

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How do we educate students at this stage?

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Classification Activities (Identifying)
Integration that allows students to make connections to things they thought were separate.
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What age does formal operation occur?

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11+ years

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Released from restrictions of tangible and concrete
Separate real from possible/hypothetical
language freed from concrete, able to express the possible

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Formal Operations

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How do we educate students at this stage?

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Challenge but don’t frustrate
be aware of their limitations
encourage analysis in and with drawing conclusions

23
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Lev Vygotsky

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Children’s social interactions with those who have more knowledge actually assists with cognitive development.

24
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Optimal time for students to learn

in the zone, with assistance from those more knowledgeable, students can grasp information they would not get otherwise

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Zone of proximal development.

25
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Who coined the term “scaffolding”?

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Jerome Bruner

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Scaffolding and the Zone of Proximal Development encompasses….

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The students actual level
the potential level of the student
the zone equals the area of the potential development and individual is capable of attainnig with assistance from someone knowledgeable

27
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Social aspect of vygotsky’s theory…

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Dependent on the interaction between learner ad mentor or student and teacher.

28
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Maximizing the social aspect

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Relating knew knowledge to old knowledge.
Task should increase from less complex to more complex as skill increases.
interaction with peers, having peers explain concepts and ideas.

29
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The impact of maturity on cognitive ability

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Information processing theory.

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Information processing theory

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As students grow, their attention, learning strategies, knowledge base, and metacognitive abilities improve.

31
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Attention (Info Processing Theory)

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As children grow, they are not so easily distracted.

They learn what they intend to learn

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Learning Strategies (Info Processing Theory)- As children grow

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They use rehearsal strategies
Organization improves
learning strategies become more efficient
Elaboration happens (occurs around puberty)

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Knowledge Base (Info Processing Theory)- As Children grow

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Their amount of knowledge increases
Their knowledge base becomes more integrated
the more info they have, the easier it is to remember things.

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Metacognition (Info Processing Theory)- As Children grow

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knowledge (awareness) of their cognitive processes improve.
More aware of limitations.
More aware of effective learning strategies.

35
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Language Development

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Encompasses sound, structure, meaning and context.

36
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Language Aquisition

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Most language acquisition is complete by the age of four or five.

37
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Components of language

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Phonemes, Morphemes, Semantics, Syntax, Pragmatics, Phonology

38
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The smallest unit of sound

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Phonemes

39
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The Smallest unit with meaning (base word or affix0

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Morpheme

40
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The meaning

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Semantics

41
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The sentence struture

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Syntax

42
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Use of language to communicate

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Pragmatics

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Sound system of language

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Phonology

44
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Cooing (development of language)

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6-8 weeks

45
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Babbling (development of language)

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4 months

46
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Holophrasic (development of language)

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1 year

47
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Single words, multiple meanings (development of language)

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18 months

48
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Experience with tense ad number (development of language)

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18 months and older

49
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Simple sentences (development of language)

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2 years old

50
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Errors in language

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Overgeneralization, undergeneralization, overregulation

51
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overextending the use of the word- one word multiple things.
Example- Every animal is a dog

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Overgeneralization

52
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Too restrictive in applying the word - leaving out situations when the word applies
Example- Dog only refers to animals with fur

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Undergeneralization

53
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incorrectly applied grammar- she camed or comed

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Overregulation

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