Cognitive Development

Question 1

What is cognitive development?

Answer 1

Cognitive development refers to the student’s understanding of concepts and their cognitive abilities.

Question 2

How does language influence cognitive development?

Answer 2

Language stimulates cognitive development, and language sophistication influences cognitive abilities.

Question 3

What role does interaction play in cognitive skills development?

Answer 3

The ability to interact with others while using language helps students develop cognitive skills.

Question 4

Do students who are deaf or hard of hearing have the same cognitive development capabilities as those with normal hearing?

Answer 4

Yes, students who are deaf or hard of hearing have the same capability for cognitive development as students with normal hearing.

Question 5

What is the role of an educational interpreter in cognitive development?

Answer 5

The educational interpreter plays a vital role in a student’s cognitive development by communicating concepts.

Question 6

What is required of a skilled educational interpreter?

Answer 6

A skilled educational interpreter must understand cognitive development and communicate new, abstract, or difficult concepts.

Question 7

Piagetian approach to cognitive development is what?

Answer 7

A Piagetian approach to cognitive development assumes that it is independent from language development.

Question 10

How does information enter the mind?

Answer 10

Information enters the mind to stimulate cognitive development through perception of sound, visual information, speech, and touch.

Question 11

What role does cultural background play in cognition?

Answer 11

Cultural background affects cognition by helping to define what we know, what is important, how we approach new tasks, and how we interact.

Question 12

Is socialization and play important to cognitive development?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

What are the different levels of abstraction in teacher’s questions?

Answer 13

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy:

Demonstration of knowledge—> remembering facts, recall
Comprehension—> “In your own words describe…”
Application—> using knowledge in a new situation
Analysis—> breaking down information into its components and recognizing patterns
Synthesis—> combining ideas to create something new
Evaluation—> forming their own opinions on the subject

Question 14

How can organizing a text spatially help students?

Answer 14

Organizing a text spatially may help a student organize the text cognitively.

Question 15

What is cognitive organization?

Answer 15

Cognitive organization helps students store and remember concepts.

Question 16

How does repetition aid learning?

Answer 16

Providing students with repetition allows them to see patterns, parallels, comparisons, and similarities, which all help them learn.

Question 17

When do students learn in terms of cognitive development?

Answer 17

Students learn when there is a conflict between what they think and new information that they receive.

Question 18

What is a cognitive scheme?

Answer 18

A cognitive scheme is a cognitive structure that organizes information, making sense of experience.

Question 19

In what domains do students develop cognitive schemes?

Answer 19

Students develop schemes in many different domains: motor, language, thinking, social, etc.

Question 20

How do students interpret the world?

Answer 20

Students interpret the world and experiences in terms of their cognitive schemes, which have been developed based on previous experiences.

Question 21

What support do students often need to learn new concepts?

Answer 21

Students often need support to learn new concepts in terms of contextualization, breaking down concepts, etc.

Question 22

What constitutes effective support for learning new concepts?

Answer 22

Effective support can include practice, repetition, and experience which aid in generalizing a concept.

Question 23

Does a student’s ability to repeat a concept indicate understanding?

Answer 23

A student’s ability to repeat a concept does not mean the student understands it.

Question 24

What is better evidence that a student has learned a concept?

Answer 24

When a student can answer questions spontaneously about the concept, or can show that he understands.

Question 25

Are understanding a concept and being able to talk about it the same?

Answer 25

Understanding a concept and being able to talk about a concept are not the same. However, talking about a concept often helps a student understand it.

Question 26

What is the goal of education?

Answer 26

The goal of education is for students to acquire thinking skills, not to just memorize facts.

Question 27

How do students learn according to the text?

Answer 27

Students are like little scientists, trying to explore and figure out how the world works based on what they see, do, and hear.

Question 28

Do students learn a great deal from exploration, making mistakes, and self-correction?

Answer 28

Yes

Question 29

What do behavioral approaches to learning propose?

Answer 29

Behavioral approaches to learning propose that positive behavior can be increased by the use of positive re-enforcers. Also that negative behavior can be decreased with punishment or withdrawal of privileges.

Question 30

What does strict behaviorism not recognize?

Answer 30

Strict behaviorism does not recognize the active cognitive construction on the part of the student. (It focuses on their outward behavior and not their inner thoughts)