Cognitive Development

Question 1

A Piagetian approach to cognitive development assumes that cognitive development is independant from what other development?

Answer 1

Language developement.

Question 2

List 4 ways in which information enters the mind to stimulate cognitive development.

Answer 2

Through perception of sound, visual information, speech and touch.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Cultural background.

Question 4

True or False: Socialization is an important aspect of cognitive development.

Answer 4

True.

Question 5

Fill in the blank: Play has an important role in ______________.

Answer 5

Cognitive development.

Question 6

Teacher’s questions can require different levels of abstraction in terms of cognitive skills. LIst them.

Answer 6

Taxonomy, demostration of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, syntheseis and evaluation.

Question 7

True or False: Organizing a text spatially may hinder a student organizing the text cognitively.

Answer 7

False. It can help the student organize the text cognitively.

Question 8

Cognitive organization helps students store and remember concepts. Providing repitition allows students to see what?

Answer 8

Patterns, parallels, comparisons, and similarities. These all help them to learn.

Question 9

Fill in the blank: In terms of cognitive development, students learn when there is ________ between what they think and new __________ that they receive. Often this causes the student to accommodate, or to modify a _______ scheme, based on new information.

Answer 9

conflict; information; cognitive

Question 10

What is a cognitive scheme?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Motor, language, thinking, social, etc are all examples of what?

Answer 11

Different domains in which students develop cognitive schemes.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Previous experiences.

Question 13

True or False: Students don’t need support to learn new concepts in terms of contextualizion, breaking down concepts, etc.

Answer 13

False. They often need support.

Question 14

In relation to the last card, list some examples of effective support.

Answer 14

Practice, repetition, and experience which aide in generalizing a concept.

Question 15

True or False: Once a student can repeat a concept this means that the sudent understands it.

Answer 15

False. Students can memorize language without understanding what it really means.

Question 16

List an example of evidence that a student understands a concept.

Answer 16

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

Question 17

True or False: Understanding a concept and being able to talk about a concept are not the same thing.

Answer 17

True. Being able to talk about a concept often helps a student understand it.

Question 18

What is the goal of education?

Answer 18

For students to acquire thinking skills, not just memorize facts.

Question 19

How are students like scientists?

Answer 19

They try and explore and figure out how the world works based on what they see, do and hear.

Question 20

What three areas do students learn a great deal from?

Answer 20

Exploration, making mistakes, and self-correction.

Question 21

FIll in the blank: Behavioral approaches to learning propose that positive behavior can be increased by the use of ___________.

Answer 21

Positive reinforcers.

Question 22

Punishment or the withdrawl of privileges can decrease what?

Answer 22

Negative behavior.

Question 23

True or False: Strict behaviorism does not recognize the acitve cognitive construction on the part of the student.

Answer 23

True.