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| Piaget's preoperational stage |
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2-7 years
children begin to represent world with words, images, drawings, form stable concepts |
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| symbolic function substage |
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2-4 years
child gain ability to mentally represent object not present |
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| egocentrism(symbolic function substage |
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| ability to distinguish between own perspective and others |
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| animism(symbolic function substage) |
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| belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities and capable of action |
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| Inituitive Thought Substage |
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4-7 years
use primitve reasoning and have many ?'s
seem sure of knowledge but unaware of how they know what they know |
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| centration(Inituitive Thought Substage) |
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| focusing attention on one characteristic to the exclusion of all other |
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| conservation(Inituitive Thought Substage) |
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| awareness that altering appearance of object does not change properties |
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Zone of Proximal Development(ZPD)
(Vygotsky's Theory of Development) |
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| range of tasks that are too difficult for child to master alone |
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| action planning and allocating attention to goals |
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| focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event |
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| salient vs. relevant dimensions |
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| preschool children more likely pay attention to stimulus that stand out or are salient |
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| more likely to use haphazard strategies in problem solving than older children |
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| more likely to give misleading info of _____ memory |
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given considerable freedom to choose activities and move from one to another
(discourages verbal interaction between children and peers) |
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