lecture 2

Question 1

Piagetian theory

Answer 1

Stages of Development
Sensorimotor (up to 2 years)
Pre-Operational (up to 5 years)
Concrete Operational (up to 12 years)
Formal Operational

Question 2

Piaget: Key Ideas

Answer 2

1. Qualitative changes in children’s thought.
2. Invariant sequence of general patterns of thought.
3. The development of “operational” intelligence

Question 3

Sensorimotor Stage (0-2 years)

Answer 3

-9 months and older have a sense of object permanence

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Question 4

Preoperational Stage (2 to 6-7 years)

Answer 4

The child begins actively to develop mental representations—but limitations

Question 5

Concrete-Operational Stage (7-8 to 11-12)

Answer 5

Children become able to manipulate mentally the internal representations they formed during the preoperational period

Question 6

Piaget: Some Problems

Answer 6

. Focused on children’s inabilities rather than abilities.

2. Focused on individual rather than the social context.
3. Focused on decontextualised rather than everyday tasks.
4. Little to say about language development.
5. Research limited by technology.

Question 7

Information Processing and Development

Answer 7

Component processes that underlie thinking.

2. Memory, attention, language development etc.
   but. .IP focuses on quantitative changes with age

Question 8

Vygotsky’s Theory of Cognitive Development

Answer 8

Rediscovered in 1970s and 1980s
Vygotsky emphasized the role of the socialisation in children’s intellectual development (Peers and parents). The importance of socio-cultural bases of intellectual development

Question 9

Zone of proximal development (ZPD)- VGotsky

Answer 9

The zone of potential development
Relationship between self and other
Importance of cultural practice and cognition