COGNITIVE - Jean Piaget Flashcards
1
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In what year was this theory established?
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COGNITIVE - 1936
2
Q
Cognitive development…
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Language acquisition is part of a wider development of understanding
3
Q
Argued that children will only acquire language in more complex forms when…
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Their intellectual development can cope - trying to teach them before they are ready will be unsuccessful
4
Q
Advocated for what kind of learning?
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Discovery Learning (learning by doing)
5
Q
Stage 1 of Language Development:
Sensorimotor Stage
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UP TO 2 YRS
- Children experience the world through their 5 senses
- Egocentricity; cannot perceive the world through other’s viewpoints
6
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Stage 2 of Language Development:
Preoperational Stage
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2 - 7 YRS
- Increase in playing and pretending
- Do not yet understand concrete logic and cannot mentally manipulate information
- Still has issues with egocentricity
- Symbols: symbolic function , understanding and representing the objects in the child’s mind
7
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Stage 3 of Language Development:
Concrete Operational Stage
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7 - 11 YRS
- Children can now think logically but are limited to what they can physically manipulate
- No longer as egocentric
- Become more aware of topics previously alien to them
- Classification skills improve hugely
8
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Stage 4 of Language Development:
Formal Operational Stage
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11 - 16+ YRS
- Development of abstract reasoning and logic thought
- Can utilise metacognition
- More skills orientated towards problem solving
9
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FOR
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- Clear connections between language and cognitive ability (esp. in semantics)
10
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AGAINST
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- Some areas of language are separate (esp. grammar)
- Some children with learning disabilities actually have good language and vice versa
- ‘fis’ phenomenon suggests children’s cognitive understanding can be present but their physical development may still impact their ability to use language and children can acquire it without a full understanding
