Cognitive learning development
What is cognition?
What is the mental process by which knowledge is acquired.
What is a measure of a students abilities besides testing?
Seeing if they can help understand fellow students
What nationality is Lev Vygotsky
Russian/Soviet
When is is the age range of concrete operational
7-11
according to Piaget should elementary schools have science fairs and why
No because Piaget says children do not understand hypothesis and questioning at that age.
Important three steps of cognitive development
1. Reflexes
2. Schema
3. Operations
Play is essential to social, personal, & _____ activities
Professional
What nationality is Jean Piaget
Swiss
how do children act with new objects during the sensory motor
They see it, smell it, hear it, touch it, and put it in there mouths
it affects the classroom by saying ________
If children can not reach the formal operations until 12 should algebra be taught in middle school.
Who is considered the father of cognitive development
Who is Jean Piaget
When looking at implications of teaching children should be assessed at just above _______
Level of ZPD (zone of proximal development)
Who broke down development by stages & ages
Jean Piaget
When are children the most egocentric ?
Pre-operational (2-6)
Piaget does not adequately describe what group ?
Adolescents
Learning is a social process that is enhanced through what two things?
What is collaboration and peer interaction
Zone of proximal development is the difference between ________
What the child can do on their own vs what they can do with help
Vygotsky is a psychologist that studied congestive & social cognitive ____ &____ theories
Development & learning
What age range do they have “mastery of thought”
Formal operational stage (12+)
sequences and chronology of Piaget are __ they do not account for children that are ___________
Rigid
Fare behind or far ahead
What is the third aspect of intellectual growth?
What is equilibrium
Culture provides _____ & _____
Content knowledge & the means of thinking
Vygotsky believes learning can only take place ____
In social situations
What is missing form the list of formal operational
a. Logic
b. Abstract reasoning
c. Hypothetical reasoning
d. _______
e. Projective thinking
f. Metacognitive
g. Reflective thinking
Extended thinking
What is the number 1 problem with Piaget?
Sample size was small population of white middle class children