Week 4 Flashcards
1
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Motor development: fine motor skills
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- Lags behind gross motor skills
Due to need for greater :
muscle control, patience, judgment, visual perception
Gender: girls’ fine motor skills develop ahead of boys
2
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Motor development, fine motor skills and specific ages
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- At 3 yrs, still clumsy at picking up small objects with thumb & forefinger
- 4-5 yrs: develop precision grip
- Use scissors, pour without spilling, manage buttons, turn knobs, better control of writing implements
- 5 – 6 yrs: use cutlery more independently, tie shoelaces
3
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Literacy and numeracy
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Emergent literacy: children become aware of literacy knowledge informally
- Letter knowledge
- Phonological awareness
- Invented spelling
- Supported by interactive reading, supported writing
4
Q
Drawing
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- 16 mths: random scribbling, gross muscles, power grip
- 3 yrs: controlled scribbling, representational forms, people as “tadpoles”
- 3-4 yrs: draw person, developmental progression
- 5 – 6 yrs: increasing realism
- Quality of early childhood art correlated with reading, writing & spelling in early primary grades
5
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Numeracy in specific ages
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- 14-16 mths – knowledge of ordinality – there are relationships between quantities (lots, few, 2 < 3)
- 3.5 – 4yrs: mastered cardinality – last number of a counting sequence indicates quantity of items in set, can count to 10
- One-to-one principle: one counting tag to object (eg not “one, two, two)
- Stable order principle: tags must be chosen in stable (repeated) order one, two, three, four…
6
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Language development - vocabulary
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- Fast mapping: connect new words with concepts after brief encounter
- > by 5yrs, acquire 5-8 words per day
- > By 6 yrs, 20 per day
- Make up new words if don’t already have label
- Will construct meaning from correct usage of words by others
7
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Language development - grammar
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- 2-3 yrs: Simple sentences; use adult speech as model, acquire grammatical rules (e.g., adding –ing to play)
- Overregularization errors: overextend grammatical rules to words that are exceptions – e.g., “four sheeps”, “Mommy runned to the car”
8
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Language development - communication: pragmatics
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- Infants: conversational turn-taking and maintain topics
- By 3 yrs: can infer a speaker’s intention based on expression
- By 4 yrs: adjust speech to suit characteristics of listener (gender, age, etc) - seen in make believe play
9
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Language development - how parents support development
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Labelling: identifying objects
Echoing: reflective statements
Recasting: correcting inaccurate speech forms
Expanding: elaborating on children’s speech
10
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Piaget’s pre-operational stage
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- 2 – 7 yrs
- Dramatic increase in representational (symbolic) activity, including language
- Develop internal images of experiences, which are labelled with words
- Make believe play
11
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Piaget’s pre-operational stage - make believe play
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- > More representational than realistic
- > Includes other imaginary people; less self-centred
- 18 months: pretend with realistic objects e.g., toy telephone
- 2 years: pretend with other objects e.g., banana, stick
i. e., representational
12
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Limitations of pre-operational thought
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- Operational thought = logical thought
- Preoperational = pre- or illogical
- Described by its limitations compared to Concrete Operational thought
- Egocentrism: failure to understand that others’ have different perspectives (or distinguish from own)
- > The 3-Mountains task
- Animistic thinking: the belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities, eg thoughts & feelings
13
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further limitation of pre-operational thought - conservation and centration
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- Inability to Conserve (liquid or matter)
- > Conservation = the understanding that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape or placement
- Preoperational thinking is appearance-based & static (unable to consider transformations)
- Fail to conserve because thinking is centred and irreversible:
- > Based on centration: focusing on one aspect of a situation & neglecting others
- > Irreversibility: cannot cognitively step through a series of events & then reverse direction
14
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Critiques of Piaget
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- More recent research suggests that Piaget underestimated children’s cognitive abilities
- More evidence of logic when presented with simple tasks based on familiar experiences
- Pre-schoolers can be trained in Piagetian tasks
- Progression does develop gradually, not as rigidly stage-like as Piaget suggested
15
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Vygotsky’s view on cognitive development - sociocultural theory
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- Language development aids social communication, which further enhances development
- Speech: Piaget = egocentric speech, Vygotsky = private speech
- Children talk themselves through activities as form of self-guidance – gradually internalised to become inner speech; increases with task difficulty
- > Peaks at 5-7 yrs
- > Whisper 7 – 9 yrs
- > Inner speech (thought) 9 yrs
