cognitive theories

Question 1

sensorimotor stage (stage 1)

Answer 1

(0-2 y/o): children explore their world through senses and motor abilities

Question 2

preoperational thought

Answer 2

2-6/7 years: the child begins to develop mental representations and communicate them (the semiotic function). they use symbols (symbolic throught)

Question 3

preconceptual stage

Answer 3

2-4 y/o: increased use of verbal representation but speech is egocentric

Question 4

intuitive stage: 4-7 y/o

Answer 4

speech becomes more social less egocentric

Question 5

concrete operational stage

Answer 5

(7-8 to 11-12); children are able to manipulate mentally internal representations formed in the preoperational period.
abilities: seriation, inductive reasoning , classification, reversibility, perspective taking, conversation

Question 6

formal operations stage (12 years and above)

Answer 6

• thought becomes increasingly flexible and abstract.

Question 7

crit of Piaget

Answer 7

less attention on social context, focused on decontextualized rather than everyday problems, says little about language development, suggests that intellectual development is largely complete at age 12.

Question 8

Information processing accounts of development

Answer 8

• focus on factors which support thinking
• memory, attention, language level
• focuses on quantitative changes with age

Question 9

Vygotsky and information processing

Question 10

piaget

Answer 10

• stages of development, discontinuous, invariant, sequence, constructivist

Question 11

information processing

Answer 11

cognitive processes that support thinking rather than the outcome of thinking, quantitative changes/ continuous development

Question 12

Vygotsky

Answer 12

social construction of thought via joint activity, intersubjectivity and language; zone of proximal development

Question 13

core knowledge theories

Answer 13

innate domain specific knowledge, building blocks of later cognition, continuity.