Cognitive Development

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  • Created on: 12-10-17 20:43
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  • Cognitive Development
    • Key Concepts
      • Schemas
        • Building blocks
        • Assimilation- Present from Birth
        • Accomendation- Take on board new information
      • Invariant Stages
      • Stages that don't change, aren't variable
    • Core Theory
      • Stage theory
        • Gets better by stage
        • Universal
      • Invariant
      • Piaget
        • Sensori-Motor Stage
          • Body Scheme/ Senses
          • Motor Co-Ordination
          • Object Permenance
        • Pre-Operational Stage
          • Animism
          • Reversability
          • Egocentrism (Three Mountains)
        • Concrete Operational Stage
          • Linguistic Humour
          • Seriation
          • Conservation
        • Formal Operational
          • Abstract Thought
        • Limitations
          • Individual Differences
          • Not an automatic biological process
          • He doesn't explain why they develop, just that they do
    • Vygotsky
      • Development happens in social and cutural influences
      • Apprentice
      • Zone of Proximinal Development
        • What we can learn on our own to what we can learn off others
      • More Knowledgable Other
    • Core Study
      • Procedure
        • Cross-Sectional
        • 1 at a time, children were shown 2 rows of counters
          • Stretched out 1 row and asked which had more
        • Different ages
      • Findings
        • The Pre-Op said the spaced out ones had more
        • The Con-Op got it right
      • Limitations
        • He questioned the children twice, suggesting they got it wrong
        • He was critisised for the nature of it
    • Applications
      • Schooling
        • Piaget's influence on education
          • Readiness- a child can only learn if they're in that stage
          • Discovery Learning
          • Peer Support
        • Vygotsky's influence on education
          • Scaffolding- Support a child can use to get better
          • Spiral Curriculum- expanding knowledge
          • Teachers need to intervene

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