cognitive development, part 1 cognition – mental processes by which knowledge is acquired,...
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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, PART 1
Cognition – Mental processes by which knowledge is acquired, elaborated, stored, retrieved, and used to solve problems.
Cognitive Development – Refers to the changes that occur in children’s mental skills and abilities over time.
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Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
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Scheme – (Schema for singular, Schemata for plural)
An organized pattern of thought or action that one constructs to interpret some aspect of one’s experience.
Represent the way that people organize and understand the things around them.
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Symbolic schemes – internal mental symbols that one uses to represent aspects of experience.
Cognitive operation – an internal mental activity that one performs on objects or thoughts.
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Assimilation – The process of interpreting new experiences by incorporating them into existing schemes.
Accommodation – The process of modifying existing schemes in order to incorporate or adapt to new experiences.
Examples….
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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
Stage 1: Sensorimotor Stage (Birth-2yrs)
Stage 2: Preoperational Stage (2-7yrs)
Stage 3: Concrete Operations (7-11yrs)
Stage 4: Formal Operations (11-on)
Invariant developmental sequence!
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6 substages to Sensorimotor Stage:
Stage 1 (0-1mo) – Reflexes
Stage 2 (1-4mos) – Primary Circular Reactions
Stage 3 (4-8mos) – Secondary Circular Reactions
Stage 4 (8-12mos) – Purposeful coordination of secondary schemes
Stage 5 (12-18mos) – Tertiary Circular Reactions
Stage 6 (18-24mos) – Mental Solutions
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Object Permanence – knowledge that an object continues to exist independent of our seeing, hearing, touching, tasting or smelling it!
Stage 1 – Tracks, then ignores
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Object Permanence – knowledge that an object continues to exist independent of our seeing, hearing, touching, tasting or smelling it!
Stage 4 – Search for objects that disappear in last place found
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Object Permanence – knowledge that an object continues to exist independent of our seeing, hearing, touching, tasting or smelling it!
Stage 1 – Tracks, then ignores Stage 2 – Looks where it disappeared Stage 3 – Search for partially hidden Stage 4 – Search for objects that disappear in last place found Stage 5 – Follows series of visible displacements Stage 6 – Fully developed
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A. Imitation
1. What Piaget thought
2. New evidence
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A. Imitation
1. What Piaget thought
2. New evidence
B. Deferred imitation
1. Definition – ability to reproduce a modeled activity that has been witnessed at some point in the past.
2. New evidence
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The Preoperational Stage: 2-7 Years, Preconceptual Period
(2-4 Years)
A. Accomplishments
1. Symbolic Function
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The Preoperational Stage: 2-7 Years, Preconceptual Period
(2-4 Years)
A. Accomplishments
1. Symbolic Function
2. Begin Pretend Play
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The Preoperational Stage: 2-7 Years, Preconceptual Period
(2-4 Years)
A. Accomplishments
1. Symbolic Function
2. Begin Pretend Play
B. Errors
1. Animism
2. Precausal or Transductive reasoning
3. Egocentrism
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Egocentrism
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Egocentrism
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Egocentrism
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The Preoperational Stage: 2-7 Years, Intuitive Period
(4-7 Years)
A. Accomplishments
B. Errors
1. Classification
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The Preoperational Stage: 2-7 Years, Intuitive Period
(4-7 Years)
A. Accomplishments
B. Errors
1. Classification
2. Conservation
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The Preoperational Stage: 2-7 Years, Intuitive Period
(4-7 Years)
A. Accomplishments
B. Errors in Conservation : Mass
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The Preoperational Stage: 2-7 Years, Intuitive Period
(4-7 Years)
A. Accomplishments
B. Errors in Conservation : AREA
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The Preoperational Stage: 2-7 Years, Intuitive Period
(4-7 Years)
A. Accomplishments
B. Errors in Conservation: Liquid
Errors in Conservation
The Concrete Operational Stage: 7-11 Years
A. Accomplishments
1. Logical Reasoning
2. Reversibility
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The Concrete Operational Stage: 7-11 Years
A. Accomplishments
1. Logical Reasoning
2. Reversibility
3. Seriation
4. Transitivity
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B. Still having trouble….
The Formal Operations Stage (11 Years and Up)
Mental actions performed on ideas and propositions. Can reason logically about hypothetical processes and events that may have no basis in reality.
- Deductive reasoning- Does everyone reach this
stage?
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Overview (overheads)
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Evaluating Piaget
Contributions:
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Evaluating Piaget
Present conservation of number experiments
Criticisms
1. Underestimated abilities
2. Competence/performance
3. Stages
4. How do they progress?
5. Ignored social & cultural influences
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Core Knowledge Perspective
A view that assumes infants begin life with innate special-purpose knowledge systems.
• Physical Knowledge
• Numerical Knowledge
• Linguistic Knowledge
• Psychological Knowledge
• Biological Knowledge
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Core Knowledge Perspective
A view that assumes infants begin life with innate special-purpose knowledge systems.
Evaluation of this perspective?
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Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Perspective
Sociocultural Theory – Vygotsky’s perspective on cognitive development, in which children acquire their culture’s values, beliefs, and problem-solving strategies through collaborative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society.
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Zone of Proximal Development: the range of tasks that are too complex to be mastered alone but can be accomplished with guidance and encouragement from a more skillful partner.
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Zone of Proximal Development: the range of tasks that are too complex to be mastered alone but can be accomplished with guidance and encouragement from a more skillful partner.
Guided participation – adult-child interactions in which children’s cognitions and modes of thinking are shaped as they participate with or observe adults engaged in culturally relevant activities.
Context independent learning
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The Role of Language in Cognitive Development
Piaget’s Theory of Language & Thought
Suggested Language reflects child’s existing knowledge, not construction of new knowledge.
Vygotsky’s Theory of Language & Thought
Suggested private speech helps children plan strategies.
Who is correct?
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The Role of Language in Cognitive Development
Who is correct?
Recent Research Suggests: