Cognitive development

Cognitive development

1. Chapter 1

   • Thinking
     • Perception
     • Action
     • Cognition
     • Emotion
   • Timbergen
     • Evolution
     • Development
     • Function
     • Causation
   • Key Questions
     • innate capabilities?
     • stage like?
     • social world?
     • brain development ?
     • differences between children?
     • nature vs nurture
   • Perspectives
     • Associationist
     • Constructivist
     • Competent-infant

2. Chapter 2

   • Piaget
     • Founder of cognitive development
       • Assumptions
         • Child scientist
           • problem solver
           • needs to be challenged
         • role of activity
           • found vs constructed reality
         • methodology
           • precision & replicability
           • description and insight
     • intelligence
       • adapting to envt
     • Developmental processes
       • assimilation
       • accomodation
       • equilibration
       • active processes
     • why him?
       • interesting insights
       • appeals to intuition
       • interesting topic
       • longetivity
   • Stages
     • sensori-motor
       • primary circular
         • within body
       • secondary circular
         • outside body
       • coordination
       • tertiary circular
       • reflexes
       • beginning of representational tought
     • pre-operational
       • centration and egocentric communication
     • formal operations
       • conservation success and abstraction limitation
     • concrete operations
       • systematic understand 12- to infinity
     • characteristics of a stage model
       • abruptness
       • qualitative
       • coherent
       • concurrent

3. Chapter 3

   • information processing theories
     • Robbie Case
       • neo-piagetian
         • sensorimotor
         • representational operations
         • logical operations
         • formal operations
     • Psychometric
       • analytical, practical and creative intelligence
       • knowledge acquisition, metacomponents, performance
     • Production System
       • if then excel rule with production, action and condition side
         • production memory and working memory
       • generalization as a development mechanism
       • thinking is a cycle
     • Connectionist
       • neuronal network based on coactivation due to its strenght
         • generalization based on similarity
       • hierarchical levels: input, hidden and output
     • Cognitive evolution
       • strategy selection
     • process and system
       • automatization and encoding
         • memory
           • sensory, working and LT
     • Assumptions
       • thinking is information processing
       • precise analysis of change mechanism
       • change is constant self-modification

4. chapter 4

   • Sociocultural theories
     • assumptions
       • psychological functioning is mediated by tools
         • technical tools
         • psychological tools
       • culture norms and other people influence our opportunities for learning
       • development happens through social interaction
       • cultural learning poses cognitive requirements for teachers and learners
         • intersubjectivity
         • means/ ends
         • imitation vs emulation
         • directed learning
         • scalfolding
     • Vygotsky
       • can't dissociate child from context
     • zone of proximal development
       • intermental level
       • intramental level
   • mechanism of change
     • internalization of socially shared processes
       • ratchet effect