Lecture 7

Question 1

Core Knowledge Perspective

Answer 1

Assume infants begin life with innate, special purpose knowledge systems (core knowledge) as a result of human evolutionary processes

Question 2

Example of a believe of Core Knowledge

Answer 2

Chomsky

Question 3

4 Characteristics of Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development

Answer 3

1) Children are active explorers, testing their ideas against reality and constantly seeking to expand their knowledge
2) Child’s social environment is an active force in their development
3) Zone of proximal development
4) Scaffolding

Question 4

Zone of Proximal Development

Answer 4

Range of tasks child cannot do alone but can do so with help of a more skilled partner

Question 5

Scaffolding

Answer 5

Promotes learning at all ages, adjusting support offered during a teaching session to fit child’s current level of performance

Question 6

3 shared assumptions of Information-Processing

Answer 6

1) thinking is information processing
2) emphasise the need to study the change, what it is that moves children from one level to the next
3) Development of education/information processing based on need in higher level