Lecture 1 - Part 3

Question 1

what are the two levels of knowledge acquired from measuring a child’s knowledge

Answer 1

explicit and implicit

Question 2

what is explicit knowledge

Answer 2

knowledge that is easily accessible to the child, measured via elicited response

“what colour is that car”

Question 3

what is implicit knowledge

Answer 3

knowledge the child is unaware of, measured via spontaneous responses (body language)

Question 4

what is a piaget conservation task

Answer 4

two rows of 6 counters

one row is spaced out

the child is asked which contains more counters

the child (if in pre-operational stage of development) says the spaced out one is greater

Question 5

what did goldin-meadow et al find with piaget conservation tasks?

Answer 5

gestures produced alongside speech, even if not consistent, can demonstrate partial knowledge

Question 6

what did goldin-meadow et al find with conservation tasks at ages 1, 2 and 3

Answer 6

age 1 - fail the task through gesture and speech

age 2 - fail the task through speech, show knowledge through gesture

age 3 - pass the test through both gesture and speech