COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

1. Piaget's theory of cognitive development

   • Schemas, adaptation, assimilation, accommodation
     • Stage 1: Sensorimotor
       • object permanence
     • stage 2: pre operational
       • centration
       • egocentrism
       • conservation
     • stage 3: concrete operational stage
       • class inclusion
     • stage 4: formal operational stage
   • Piaget's stages of intellectual development and his research
   • Piaget and education

2. Alternative approaches to children's cognition

   • VYGOTSKY
     • zone of proximal development
     • scaffolding
     • guided participation in sociocultural activity
     • Language
     • Vygotsky and education
   • Nativist explanations and early infant abilities
     • Knowledge of the physical world
     • Baillargeon's work
   • The information processing approach
     • Siegler's research into problem solving strategies
     • Evaluation