Intellectual and Language skills in Infancy and Early Childhood

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What is the percentage of a baby's brain compared to an adults?
30%
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When does language development begin?
Before birth and it develops rapidly
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What is abstract logical thinking?
The ability to solve problems without having to be practically involved
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What is egocentric thinking?
Not being able to see a situation from another person's point of view
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What is concrete logical thinking?
The ability to solve a problem regarding the individual is practically involved
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What is equilibrium?
Cognitive balance between a child's experience and what they understand
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What is disequilibrium?
Cognitive imbalance between experience and what is understood
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What is accommodation?
Modifying schemas in relation to new information and experience
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What did Piaget focus on?
How children acquire the ability to think
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Why can't a 4 year old use abstract logical thinking?
They aren't mature enough
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When does the ability to think logically occur?
7 years old
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What is Sensorimotor Play? 0-2 years
Infants think by interacting with their hands, eyes, ears and mouth
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What is Preoperational Play? 2-7 years
Using symbols to represent their earlier sensorimotor discoveries
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What is Concrete Operational Play? 7-11 years
Reasoning becomes logical providing the issues are concrete
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What is Formal Operational Play? 11-18 years
The capacity for abstract logical thinking allows adolescents to reason through objects that don't apply to the real world
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Example of Sensorimotor Play
Putting objects into a container and taking them out again
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Example of Preoperational Play
Having 10 counters in a line and thinking there are more because the line is longer
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Example of Concrete Operational Play
Asking 'Jessica is taller than Joanne, but Jessica is smaller than Sally, who is the tallest?'
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Example of Formal Operational Play
Maths or scientific outcomes
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What is a schema?
A trail of thinking, a category of knowledge as well as the process of acquiring new skills
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What does a child develop in relation to schemas?
Concepts about the world around them
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What happens when a child experiences new situations where new information is presented?
Their schemas are upset and they reach a state of disequilibrium
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What happens when new information is accommodated?
The original schemas are modified or changed so they again reach a state of equilibrium
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What is conservation?
The understanding that something's appearance may change but it's quantity will stay the same
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At what age can a child understand conservation?
7 years
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Criticism 1 of Piaget
Theory was based on a small number of children
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Criticism 2 of Piaget
The ages/stages may be more fluid than he thought
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Criticism 3 of Piaget
Under/over estimates children's cognitive abilities
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Criticism 4 of Piaget
Bruner believes that with adult support, children can progress to develop higher level thinking skills
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Criticism 5 of Piaget
Cognitive development may not depend on maturation but environment and quality of formal and informal education
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