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| Focuses on how children learns and processes information |
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| Actions or mental representations that organize knowledge |
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| Incorporate new information |
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| Adjust existing schemes to accommodate new information or experiences |
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| Grouping of isolated behaviors and thoughts into an ordered system. |
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Birth - 2 years
Coordination of sensory experiences with physical or motoric actions |
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2-7 years
Egocentrism
Animism - AKA Personification
Intuitive Thought substage
4-7 years
Primitive reasoning and questioning |
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| Concrete Operational Stage |
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7-11 years
Concrete operations and logical reasoning replaces intuitive reasoning |
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11-15 years
Abstract idealistic and logical thinking as seen in verbal problem-solving skills
Hypothetical-deductive reasoning in which formulates a plan and tests a series of guesses
Adolescent egocentrism reflected in belief that others are as interested as them as they are in themselves |
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| Vygotsky's Cognitive Development |
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| Emphasized social influence as instruction as important to cognitive development of childen |
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| Zone of Proximal Development |
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| The range of time that tasks can be learned with guidance and assistance of adults or more skilled children |
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| Changing the level of support in a learning situatoin so that the child has less direct instruction as compentence increases in skill acquisition. |
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Role of language in cognitive development
Does thought or language come first? |
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| Language in Cognitive Development |
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Children make transition from external to internal speech
between 3-7 years
Self-talk enhances development |
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