Children begin to use lanuage and develop object permanence
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What is object permenance?
Recognising that when objects are out of sight, they have not disappeared
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What happens at the pre-operational stage (2-7yrs)?
Child uses symbols in play, develop - centration, ego-centrisim and have an inability to conserve
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What happens at the concrete operational stage (7-11ys)?
Ability to conserve, begin to solve mental problems, use practical support (counters)
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What is ego-centrism?
Children can only see things from their perspective
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What is conservation?
Ability to understand that things can remain the same even if the appearance has changed
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What is centration?
Classifying objects, making associations. Sorting only using one attribute - objects to size, not size and colour
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Influences on practice
Allowing opportunities for children to explore materials (sand, water, dough) - Recognise children learn at own pace - Plenty of opportunities for children to develop thinking
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Language is used to support what?
Cognitive development
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What is a schema?
A child's conclusions/thoughts
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What happens at the assimilation stage?
Children develop a concept (schema) - idea about sand
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What happens at equilibrium stage?
Children have an experience which fits with their concept (schema) - experienced sand at nursery
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What happens at the Disequilibrium stage?
Child has a new experiene that distubs their schema - water is added to sand
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What happens at the accommodation stage?
Child's understanding changes to include new experience - changes idea to accomodate new experience of sand + water
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