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Piagets Theory of Cognitive Development

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Children construct knowledge by manipulating and exploring their world. We create knowledge through adaptation - we create it all ourselves and it has two different prongs which allow it to operate. also assimilation and accommodation.

3 stages: Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations

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assimilation

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what we already know with the numbers using context clues

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accommodation

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world is in disequilibrium and you must change yourself, what you know doesn’t fit into new context

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Sensorimotor

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Preoperational (age 2-7)

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  • gains in mental representation
  • kids can think in symbols, words start having meaning
  • object permanence, can ask for things they cant see directly
  • idea of fairness or equality doesnt exist yet for you
  • conservation
    • decentration: multiple aspects of the situation into account for all the parts for it (
    • centration:
    • irreversibility:
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Concrete Operations

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  • Seriation: ability to put things in order (6-7 years)
  • transitive Inference: ability to seriate mentally (7 years)
  • Spacial Reasoning: how do we describe where we live
    • preschool- landmarks
    • 7/8
      brazil kids : culture can force kids to learn things faster or different than in school
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Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory

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Transmission to the next generation of a culture’s values, beliefs
- novices can learn from experts despite the age,
kids can tell their beliefs in god

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Ecological Systems Theory

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interview or Structred and naturalistic observation. how child is impacted by circles surrounding them in encironement from close to farther connections with them in day to day

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Mitosis & Meosis

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Mitosis: the process by which DNA duplicates
- Meiosis: sex cells have formed, leading to genetic variability

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Down Syndrome

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Incomplete injection of the egg cell by the sperm, caused by problem with the x or y chromosomes

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Teratogens

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any substance that effects development at any point in time, radiation, virus, drugs
possible outcomes:
low birth weight
- miscarriage
- prematurity are all risks
- infant death
- cancer and athsma

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Prenatal Devlopment

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stress can pass across the placenta, a virus like the flu can alter your DNA, weight gain, treat diabetes and preeclampsia ( high blood pressure)

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Labor and Delivery

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  • High levels of stress hormone
  • mom can start making milk before it is delivered and will continue as long as uses
  • adrenaline and prolactin are secreted
  • Babies have their first breathe from adrenaline, drain the fluid in lungs
  • you need at least a 7 on this chart to be okay if you are a 6 or lower you need immediate medical attn.
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Breech Birth

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most babies turn down physically before birth, breeched, doctors can do it weeks before and is better than an emergency c section
- Anoxia ( oxygen deprivation) - they just need a ventilator and get their oxygen up
- potential for umb cord around neck

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Newborn Reflexes

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  • sucking reflex- legit suck on anything they put in their mouth
  • search for nipple when put on skin
  • palmar grasp
  • Moro reflex- baby tries to catch itself when
  • tonic neck- they go captain morgan position
  • babinski reflex- curling foot
  • babies hold their breathe under water
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brain development

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lack of prefrontal cortex development in teenagers is why they make decisions as they do
White matter and grey matter in the brain bc of myelination

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Romanian Orphanage Study

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prove sensitive periods of brain development
- Kids don’t get individual attention and time so they compared kids who were adopted before 6 months old, they had good cognitive catch up
- after 6 months, there was serious issues
lower IQ scores

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experience-expectant growth

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where the brain is primed to learn

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Piaget’s Sensorimotor Stage

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reflexes lose by 6 months normally replaced w decisions
8 months learn object permanence by passing the A not B error test
Mental Representation with make believe play, violation of expectation test
attention, memory and categorization improves in infancy to toddlerhood

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Vygotsky
3 zones of Proximal Development

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  • already developed
    • already know
  • zone of proximal development
    • it is appropriate to learn that , w what you know
  • cannot learn too hard
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Speech Implications

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  • Wernickes sounds normal but it doesn’t make aany sense
  • Broca’s damage means you cant get a smooth flow of words out
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Collective Monologues

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  • children speak to eachother by each taking turns telling their own stories. don’t respond to eachother
  • children will only speak barely well to make sense, you have to be there to understand what they are talking about
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underextension/overextension:

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underextension: they will use the word dog for only their own dog

overextension: giving their dogs name to every dog

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attentive parents

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the world is somewhere that i can trust

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first apparent emotions

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  • anger/sadness- 4/6 months baby will look angry at disrupted caregiver session
  • happiness- 6/8 months old first social smile (mirror neurons)
    • laugh at 3/4 months old - smile you cant contain
  • fear- 12 months stranger danger
    • have to interact w other adults at daycare and preschool
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Self concious emotions

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  • appear between 1 1/2 and 3 year s
  • understanding how other people may interpret your behaviors you must udnerstand this
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emotional regulation

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hard.
adjusting your own state of emotions with effortful control

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Temperament

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  • by the time the kid is 4 or 5 we talk about personality
  • temperment is what you can see before they develop a personality
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Bowlby’s ethological theory of attachment

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  • The secure baby: very distressed when mom leaves the room
    • stranger danger - no adult is mom
  • resistant baby: baby doesn’t leave moms leg when she leaves the room, psychos
    • mom comes back and htey are mad
  • avoidant babies: leave mom go off and dont care when mom comes back
    • don’t care
    • any adult is cool

if the baby is outside exploring the world on their own they will be better at surviving than if they were like attached to the hip w the mom for the first year of life
Disorganized: will literally go to strangers for comfort, scared sad and confused
Secure, avoidant, resistant, and disorganized

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Brain Plasticity

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brains ability to rewire because of the specialization of neurons as you learn more.
- also have fewer neurons

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Brain localization

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  • different clusters of cells for specific tasks
    • Broca’s and Wernicke’s develop based on exposure to the environment & language
    • lateralization
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preoperational thought

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  • ego centric thought: can take multiple people’s perspective but can only do one at a time
    • cannot compare two perspectives
    • animistic thought: can think animals
  • Autistic thought: can only see it from your own point of view, cannot see someone else’s point of view
  • Logical thought: conservation is evident on simplified tasks
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Private egocentric speech

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have to talk to yourself like editing your paper trying to understand what you were meaning the first time

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preschool play

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roleplay what their parents have done for them
- play with someone who likes the same toys
- parents control a lot
- cooperation cant happen between people with who have different power differentials

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Gender Identity - according to the social learning theory

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biologically male or female according to chromosomes

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Gender Identity -according to the cog development theory

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who are you attracted to and what toys do you like becomes a model going forward

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Gender Identity -according to the gender scematic/aschematic theory

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  • scematic; do you see as a gendered activity
  • aschematic: do you see it genderless and look and decide if you want it
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Parenting Styles

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  • Authoritarian are rules with no reason
  • authoritative ; high control high support
    • willing to adapt
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Child Maltreatment

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  • kids don’t report because they are not in power against someone that is mistreating them
  • abuse causes trust mistrust issues
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Autism

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  • born with it, or with the ability for it to develop
  • wide range of how people act no two are alike
  • sensory issues
  • prefer non verbal communication
  • wont play with a toy based on its meaning.
    • playing with the tires of a toy car, rather than racing it around
  • more anxious than peers
    • physically can see and in EEG can see

Causes:
- genetic
- germ line mutations
- single nucleotide variants
advanced maternal and paternal age
men more at risk than women because they don’t have a backup x chromosome

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages- MIDDLE CHILDHOOD

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  • dustry vs Inferiority
    • Industry
      • sense of competence
    • Inferiority
      • need help?
  • Changes in thinking about self
    • place yourself relative to other
      • I’m smarter than this person but not as smart as another
  • was the test easy or hard - not me it was the test (stupid)
  • learned helplessness
    Understanding Individual Rights - - lying and deception, challenging authority
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Emotional Development in Middle Childhood

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  • more self conscious emotions
    • more experiences we have in life the more empathize with others
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Peer Groups in Middle Childhood

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  • organize on similarity
    • lots of same gender
    • common sense of exclusion
  • peer culture
    • common vocabulary
    • relational aggression emerges- mean girls -
  • Friendships in middle childhood
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Sociometric Status

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  • Popular prosocial
    • popular and positive
  • Popular Antisocial
    • popular negative
  • Rejected Aggressive
  • Rejected Withdrawn
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Primary/ Secondary Sex Characteristics

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Primary sexual characteristics are present at birth and comprise the external and internal genitalia (e.g., the penis and testes in males and the vagina and ovaries in females). Secondary sexual characteristics are those that emerge during the prepubescent through postpubescent phases (e.g., breasts in females…

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Perspectives on Moral development

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  • is it something you get from society
    • psychoanalytic
    • socialization and social learning
    • you are taught, learn by example
  • something you come up with on your own
    • cognitive development & piaget
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Domains of Thought

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  • Moral Domain
    • rights
    • fairness
    • justice
  • social conventional
    • conventions
    • norms
    • rules we agree to
      • conventions are changeable
        • As long as everyone agrees it doesn’t matter which side it is
        • norms are good because they
  • Personal
    • whats important to you
    • part of your identity
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Erikson- Identity versus role confusion

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  • you find out who you are
    • role confusion- someone who cant rly find their role
  • Self Concept
    • you have more of a view of who you are, you understand your’e not hot or cold -
  • Self Esteem
    • rises in adolesence and dips at school changes,
    • changes in demands in your skills
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Arnett’s Stages of Emerging Adulthood

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  • Emerging adulthood is defined by 5 features
    • feeling in between
    • identity exploration
    • self focused
    • instability
    • possibilities
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Epistemic Cognition (Piaget)

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  • dualistic: either A or B no middle ground
  • relativistic: could both be right
  • Relativistic w commitment
    • aware but still have an opinion

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