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cognitive development Piaget and Vygotsky Flashcards

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Piaget

what did Piaget’s theories focus on?

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how children understand the physical and social world

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Piaget

what is a constructivist?

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a child constructs knowlege by engaging the world, generates and tests theories

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Piaget

what is behaviourism?

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when a child passively soaks up information from the environment

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piaget: key principles

what are the Influences on development

6 influences

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  • maturation
  • activity
  • social transmission
  • equilibration
  • assimilation
  • accommodation
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influences on development: maturation

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unfolding of biological changes that are genetically programmed

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influences on development: activity

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child as an active learner, exploring the environment

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influences on development: social transmission

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learn from others

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influences on development: equilibration

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when pre-existing schemes or ways of thinking about an object do not fit with our experiences, we adjust to re-establish balance

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influences on development: assimilation

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“adding” of information to existing structure

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Piaget: stages of development

are the stages qualitative or quantitative?

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qualitative

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Piaget: stages of developmet

NEW STAGE =

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major shift in underlying structure

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Piaget: stages of development

UNIVERSAL

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all children go through all stages

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Piaget: stages of development

INVARIANT order of stages

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all children go through the same stages, in the same order

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what is the rate of development

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it varies

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what is the 1st stage of development?

Birth-2yrs

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Sensorimotor
* building schemes through sensory and motor exploration
* child builds on basic reflexes
* develops object permanence
* 6 substages -> simple to complex reflexes

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what is the 2nd stage of development?

2-7 yrs

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Peroperational
* preparing for concrete operations
* symbolic: symbols e.g. language used to represent the world
* egocentric: limited appreciation of others’ perspectives

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what is the third stage of development

7-11 yrs

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concrete operational
* operation
emergence of ability to transform objects in mind
* logic
first signs of logical thinking
* reversibility
ability to mentally reverse an operation
* decentration
understanding that change on one dimension can be compensated for by change in another

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what is the last stage of development?

11 yrs+

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Formal operational
* characterised by hypothetico-deductive reasoning
-> deducing hypotheses from general theory
-> generate predictions
-> systematically test predictions, holding one factor constant, vary another factor

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Piaget’s pendulum problem

what deterimines the speed of the pendulum?

concrete & formal

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  • concrete operational child will vary factors (length of string, weight of pendulum force) randomly
  • formal operational child will systematically vary one factor at a time
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piaget’s pendulum problem

what can a concrete operational child do?

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concrete operational child can manipulate objects in mind

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what can an operational child do?

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operational children can manipulate ideas in mind

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Piaget: critical evaluation

state 3 critiques about Piaget’s theory

positive or negative

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  • very influential, many important contributions
  • general consensus that thought is structured
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constructivist view on Piaget’s theory

3 points

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  • cognitive development not just learning (nurture)
  • cognitive development not just unfolding of innate structure (nature)
  • cognitive develoment not passive (behavioursim), but the result of children’s active construction of knowledge
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piaget: critical evaluation

is Piaget’s theory replicable?

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they can be well replicated but does it mean that the theory holds?

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Does Piaget’s theory hold?

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  • do all children pass through the same stages at the same age?
  • style of thinking might be applied to different problems at different stages (i.e. not universal)
  • development doesn’t end at 11 years
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what did Cohen & Cashon, 2006 say about Piaget’s theory?

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  • it underestimates competence
    i.e. social and cultural influences/differences
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Piaget’s theory critical evaluation: contributions to pedagogy

Berk 2008

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  • Education should help children learn how to learn, discovery learning
  • Listen to children, pay attention to their thinking processes
  • Set up situations with unexpected consequences, hypothesis testing e.g., what do we think will happen?
  • Concept of differentiation, materials can be taught at different levels, adjust to match child’s capacities
  • Individual differences, children develop at different rates
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what did Vygotsky’s theories focus on?

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socio-cultural theory of cognitive development

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what were Vygotsky’s influences on development?

3 influences

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  • social interactions with more experienced others (parents, older children)
  • learning
  • language
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Vygotsky: some key principles

What are some key principles?

3

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  • mediators
  • elementary mental functions
  • higher mental functions
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mediators

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psychological tools generated by the social and cultural development context
* language
* counting
* art
* writing

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elementary mental functions

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biological and emerge spontaneously
* basic attention, perception, memory

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higher mental functions

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coordinate cognitive processes, use mediators
* volutary attention, intentional remembering, abstract thinking, problem solving

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Piaget vs. Vygotsky (stages of development)

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  1. sensorimotor = affiliation
  2. preoperational = play
  3. concrete operational = play
  4. formal operational = peers, work, theorising
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what is private speech?

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when a young child provides a running commentary to their own actions and thoughts

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vygotsky: private speech

what did Vygotsky view private speech as?

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a foundation for all higher cognitive processes e.g
* sustained attention, memory rehearsal and recall, categorisation, planning and problem-solving & reflection

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vygotsky: private speech

what does private speech allow children to do?

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  • reflect on thinking and behaviour
  • plan appropriate action
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when is private speech mainly used?

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used more when tasks are difficult, after errors, or when confused - it helps guide behaviour

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what was Piaget’s view on private speech?

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Piaget called it ‘egocentric speech’ and did not think it served as a useful cognitive function

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when does privatt speech become inner speech?

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becomes inner speech as thought processes are internalised (7+ years)

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More private speech =

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better performance on complex tasks

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what is the zone of proximal development?

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ZPD explains mechanism by which children can perform tasks they cannot do alone when they have suppport expert

43
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what does ZPD describe?

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it describes how social interactions influences cognitive development

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Vygotsky

importance of social interactions

3 factors

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  • intersubjectivity
  • scaffolding
  • guided participation
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importance of social interactions

intersubjectivity

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process by which two participants start task with different levels of understanding, but finish task with same level

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scaffolding

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process by which teachers adjust level of instruction to suit child’s current level of understanding e.g. by breaking a task down into simpler components

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guided participation

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  • in less formal teaching situations than those where scaffolding occur - the cultural community
  • more knowledgeable other can guide bheaviour through joint participation in a task, or in play
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Zone of proximal development in research: Rogoff et al. 2003

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  • intent community participation
  • child initiates participation in culturally relevant activity and is supported to make a genuine contribution
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Zone of proximal development in research: Rogoff et al. 1984

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  • mothers pay more attention to structuring conceptually “difficult” tasks as opposed to conceptually easy ones
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Zone of proximal development in research: Cho & Compton 2015

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  • dynamic assessment draws on the principles of the ZPD to look at potential to learn/capacity to learn rather than existing knowledge or skills
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make-believe play

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  • crucial to cognitive and social development
  • experience of responding to internal ideas, not external stimuli -> self regulation
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Vygotsky: critical evaluation

3 main critiques

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  • focus on language - de-emphasizes other factors, such as observation and other learning methods
  • underestimates role of nature
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Vygotsky: critical evaluation

Contributions to pedagogy

5 points

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  • need to do more than arrange an environment conducive to learning
  • instruction -> internalisation -> learning
  • imitation -> learning
  • collaborative learning between peers
  • use language to organise thinking, dialogue and discussion

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