Week 4 Flashcards
When is early childhood
2-6years
What are fine motor skills and when are they developed
Need greater muscle control, patience, visual perception. It lags behind gross motor skills.
At 3yrs: still clumsy with small objects.
At 4-5: develop precision grip
At 5-6: use cutlery more independently, tie shoelaces.
Emergent literacy
Children become aware of literacy knowledge informally (supported by interactive reading and writing)
When does Numeracy happen
14-16 months - knowledge of ordinality (relationships between quantities; lots, few, 2 < 3)
When does Drawing happen
16 mths: random scribbling
3 yrs: controlled scribbling
3-4 yrs: increasing realism
When does Language development: vocab happen and in what quantity
by 5 yrs, 5-8 words per day
by 6 yrs, 20 per day
When does Language development: grammar happen
2-3 years: simple sentences. Overregularisation errors
Ways parents support language development
labelling, echoing, recasting, expanding
What is in Piaget pre-operational stage
Cognitive development and pre-operational thought
When does cognitive development happen
2-7 years, children develop language and abstract thought
Limitations of pre-operational thought
Operational thought = logical thought
Pre-operational = illogical
Explain concepts within Pre-operational thought
Egocentrism: failure to understand that others’ have different perspectives (3 mountains task)
Animistic thinking: the belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities
Conservation: that no matter the size of glass, the amount of water stays the same
what is Vygotsky’s Cognitive Development theory
Sociocultural theory
Sociocultural theory is
Language -> thought
Children talk to themselves through activities as form of self-guidance, gradually becomes inner speech (thought)
What is Theory of mind
Understanding mental activities. Capacity to understand others’ thoughts, feelings and behaviours which differ from your own. (false belief test with pencils in smart box)
