COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

1. Piaget

   • Schemas, adaptation, assimilation and accommodation
   • Stages of intellectual development
     • Sensorimotor stage
       • Piaget (1963)
       • Evaluation
       • Object permanence
     • Preoperational stage
       • Piaget and Inhelder (1956)
       • Egocentrism
       • Hughes (1978)
       • Evaluations
     • Concrete operational stage
       • Conservation & Class Inclusion
       • Piaget and Szeminska (1941) (Conservation)
         • Evaluation
       • Piaget and Szeminska (1941) (Class Inclusion)
         • Evaluation
     • Formal operations stage
       • Inhelder and Piaget (1958)
   • Evaluation of theory and methods

2. Vygotsky

   • Zone of proximal development
     • Hedegaard (1996)
   • Scaffolding
     • Wood and Middleton (1975)
     • Evaluation
   • Guided participation
     • Rogoff (1995)
   • Language
   • Evaluation
   • Elbers and Streefland (2000)

3. Nativist explanations

   • Knowledge of the physical world
   • Baillargeon (1991)
   • Evaluation

4. Information Processing approach

   • Flavell et al. (1996)
   • Siegler's research into problem solving strategies
     • Siegler (1976)
   • Evaluation