Cognition and Development Flashcards

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Piaget: Cognitive Developent

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Driven to learn by a desire for equilibration
Rely on schema, some are innate some develop via:
* Assimilation
* Accomodation

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Piaget

Equlilibration

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When you understand your environment
Not having the neccessary schema to understand the environment is disequilibria and is unpleasant

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Piaget

Growing Schema

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Assimilation
* adding new information to existing schemas

Accomodation
* modifying existing schemas or creating new ones in order to accomodate new information

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Piaget: Cognitive Development

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  • Preference for faces (innate schema)
  • Role of motivation
  • Role of others
  • RWA (learning)
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Piaget: Intellectual Development

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  1. Sensorimotor (0-2)
  2. Pre-operational (2-7)
  3. Concrete Operations (7-11)
  4. Formal Operations (11+)
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Piaget

Sensorimotor Stage

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  • 0-2
  • Attain object permanance at 8 months
  • Learn through trial and error
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Pre-operational

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  • 2-7
  • Inability to conserve
  • Egocentrism
  • Struggle with class inclusion
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Piaget

Concrete Operations

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  • 7-11
  • Conservation
  • Classification
  • Less egocentrism
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Piaget

Formal Operations

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  • 11+
  • Abstract skills
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Syllogisms
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Piaget: Intellectual Development

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  • Object permanence (suprise)
  • Ego centrism (police)
  • Conservation (naughty teddy)
  • Formal operations (practice)
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Vygotsky

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Cognitive development is a social process of learning from MKOs
Culture contributes content and processsed of thinking
Zone of Proximal Developmemt
Scaffolding

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Vygotsky

Zone of Proximal Development

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The difference between a child’s current level and their potential level

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Vygotsky

Scaffolding

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  1. Demonstration
  2. Preparation of child
  3. Indication of materials
  4. Specific verbal instructions
  5. General Prompts
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Vygotsky

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  • ZPD support (puzzles)
  • RWA (collaborative learning)
  • Scaffolding support
  • Nature vs nurture (Piaget)
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Baillargeon

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Babies born with physical reasoning system
* basic understanding of the physical wold
* ability to learn more details easily

VoE
* Expected event (see carrot through window)
* Unexpected event (don’t)
* Children stared longer = suprise

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Baillargeon

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  • Validity of VoE (more than Piaget)
  • Innate (support and universality?)
  • More interesting?
  • Support (screen)
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Selman’s Levels of Perspective Taking

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Perspective taking is the ability to appreciate a social situation from the perspective of our normal social interaction

  1. Socially egocentric
  2. Social informational role taking
  3. Self reflective role taking
  4. Mutual role taking
  5. Social and conventional system role taking
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Selman

Socially Egocentric

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  • 3-6
  • Can identify emotions in others
  • Can’t understand causes
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Selman

Social Information Role Taking

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  • 6-8
  • Can tell the difference between their PoV and others
  • Can only focus on one at a time
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Selman

Self-reflective Role Taking

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  • 8-10
  • Can fully put themselves in anothers shoes
  • Can only do one at a time
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Selman

Mutual Role Taking

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  • 10-12
  • Can see there own and someone elses PoV at the same time
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Selman

Social and Conventional System
Role Taking

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  • 12-15+
  • understanding that sometimes appreiciating other’s PoVs is not enough to keep order
  • This is why we need social conventions
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Selman’s Levels of Perspective Taking

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  • Holly Senario
  • RWA (identifying abnormal, SST)
  • Supermarket observation
  • Bullies
  • Reductionist
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Theory of Mind

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Ability to attribute mental states to oneself and to others

False belief tasks
* can children understand that people can believe something untrue
* Sally Anne
* 20% of autistic children were correct
* 85% of normal children

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Theory of Mind

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  • ASD
  • Perspective taking
  • Validity (other abilities)
  • ?
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Mirror Neurons

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Rizzoletti - monkeys
Same neurons fire when watching someone else do something as when you do it.
Empathy, perspective taking.
Broken mirror as explanation for autism

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Mirror Neurons

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  • Rizzoletti (hand movements)
  • Support (can’t tell exact neurons)
  • Issues with research
  • ASD imitate faces study (directly proprtional)

Relate A03 to social cognition, not just MNS