Chapter 4 - Human Development (Piaget)

Schemes

mental structures that organize information and experiences (tea bag)

Assimilation

New experiences are readily incorporated into existing schemes

Accomodation

schemes are modified based on experiences

Piaget States of Cognitive Development

1. Sensorimotor

2. preoperational

3. concrete operational

4. formal operational

Sensorimotor intelligence

• birth to 2yrs

• use senses and motor skills to learn

Preoperational thought

• preschool (2-6 years)

• before logical operations

• symbolic thhinking

• language

• centration (see everything through their eyes)

• egocentrism (everything is about them)

• appearance as reality (spider man is real in life)

Vygotsky is what?

Social Learning

Social context

every aspect of children’s cognitive development is embedded here

Allison Gopnik

“It is not that kids are bad at paying attention, they are bad at paying attention to everything”

Children laught up to how many times a day?

400

Adults laugh up to how many times a day?

15

Babbling

trying to imitate speech

Language

pivotal to every kind of cognition in early childhood

Early childhood is a (blank) period and is the best time to learn vocab, grammar, and pronunciation

sensitive

At age 2 a child knows how many words

500

At age 6 a child knows how many words

10,000+

fast mapping

little knows a bunny, but calls a squirrel a bunny

Behaviorist Approach

using “good girl/boy”

Linguistic Approach

part of brain is dedicated to language

Cognitive Approach

searching in their own database and learning it on their own

Social Interaction Approach

learning things from socializing with others

Bilingual Infants

• 10-12 months no longer detect sounds in second language (neural commitment)

• typically show early development of executive brain functioning

Language “mapping”

only happens in social setting