development

Question 1

implications for teaching

Answer 1

• Robert Slavin
• process > right answer
• should engage w environment instead of given facts
• children don’t think like adults

Question 2

weakness for piaget

Answer 2

• Dasen
• aboriginal children conserve later
• reductionist bc doesn’t take into account of cultural settings / differences

Question 3

strength of dwecks mindset theory

Answer 3

• Yeager and Dweck
• children could deal better with not fitting in if they had a growth mindset

Question 4

weakness for dwecks mindset theory

Answer 4

• Gunderson et al
• Dweck did in artifical environment but Gunderson did in real life situation

Question 5

strength for Willingham

Answer 5

• Betty Repa Choli and Alison Gopnik
• experimental evidence = reliable
• 18 months - non ego
• 14 months - ego
• crackers and broccoli

Question 6

weakness for three mountains task

Answer 6

• Helen Borke
  realistic scenarios and had different findings -> lack ecological validity
• used a puppet
• 3 yro 79%
• 4 yro 93%

Question 7

weakness for Kohlberg theory of moral development

Answer 7

• Carol Gilligan
• only male sample = not generalisable