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Cognition

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activity of knowing and the mental processes sued to acquire knowledge and solve problems

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Cognitive Development

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changes that occur in mental skills and abilites over the course of life

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Piagets Theory of Cognitive Development

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based theories on own children + very few kids in the village. his legacy dramatically changed the way scholars, profs, and society in general own how children and adolsencet thinks. bf his wokr the general understanding was that children and adolescents throughout at the level of adults

  • stage like theory, domain general
  • children construct knowledge
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Schema

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cognitive strucutres or concepts used to ID and interpret objects, events, info in enivonments and organize the way of making sens of experinces

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Assimilation

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used by kids to aquire new knowledge within a stage (absorb knowledge into current structures)

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Accommodation

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occurs when a child can no longer assimilate new info (processes altering a belief to make it more compatible with experience)

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Organization and Equilibrium

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rearaning exisitng schema into more complex ones

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Example of Developing a Cognitive Schema through Assimilation and accomodation - rattle

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assim = a new rattle; playing with it the same as they played with other rattle

accom = a new rattle at initall play with rattle as same way as other, but if the rattle makes a diff noise the child will adapt there new way to pay with the rattle based off noise

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4 Stages of Piagets Cognitive Development

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  1. Sensorimotor
  2. Pre operational
  3. Concrete Operational
  4. Formal Operational
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Sensorimotor

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0-2 = cognitive experience based on direct sensory experience with the world, as well as moto motor movement that allows infants to interact with the world. object permance is the signiciant development milestone of this stage

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Pre Operational

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2-7yr = thinking moves beyond immediate appearance of object. child understands physcial conservation and that symbols, language, and drawings can be used to represent ideas

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Concreate Operational

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7-11yr = the ability to perfrom mental tranformational on objects that r physcialy present emerges. thinl bc logical and organized

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Formal Operation

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11yrs to adulthood = the capacity for abstract and hypothetical thinking develops. scientific reasoning bc possible

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Where all of Piagets stages / ages correct

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bc he used such a small group of kids hiss age ranges r a bit off
S 0-2yr is correct
PO should be 2-5/6
CO should be 5/6-9/10
FO should be 10+

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Sensorimotor Stage indebth

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infants and toddlers thinkg with their sensorimotor equipment. sensory inputs (vision and hearing) and motor capabilities bc coordinatess. this categorie was further divided into 6 catergories

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Sensorimotor Schemes

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and organized pattern of actio of behaviour with which the infants interacts and comes to know the world
sucking or grabbing

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Object Permanence indebth

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they continue to exist even when they are not in sensory or motor contact with object, as revealed by hide and seak. may be present in first few mothins according to Renee Bailargeons Studied

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A not B Search Error

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infanct continue to search for an object in its first hidden place even after seeing it get moved. ful understanding revealed by problems of invisible displacement

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Mastery is Gradual

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more complex with age as changes take place in frontal and prefronal cortex

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Power of Peek-a-Boo

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significant cognitive support: through play, infants can play out the comings and goind of ppl that they come to recognize and depend upon. and infants can alos gain understanding that they can hide from and adult, although they think if they cants see the adult they cant see them

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Pre Operatinal Stage indebth

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child moves from S-P stafe; contrive representational activity increase. symbols increase like symbolic function or symbolic pretend play. however piaget felt kids during thiss tage did not yet have the ability to think logically

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POS Egocentrism

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focused only on their own viewpoint or perspective. unable to think abt others symbolic viewpoint from ones own. piaget belived preschoolers ego bias prevents them fro accommodating or reflecting on and revisiting their limited reasoning

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POS Conservation

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cogntive development = childrenn at this stage can not conserve yet - they thinkcertain physcial characterisictic of objects remain the same wven when their outward appearchne changes

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Centration

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focusing on 1 aspect of a stimulation while neglecting other importance facts

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Irrevsibility
an inability to mentally go through a series of steps in a problem and then reverse direction, returning to the starting point
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More complex mental operations
decentration ( no longer focuses solely on 1 aspect) and reversibility (can reverse thinking)
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Strategies and Rules that make thinking more systematic and powerful
1. numbers 2. catergories of objects 3.spatial relations amg objects 4. cognitive maps
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Operational Stage indebth
piaget felt children or adolsences think more rational and sytematically. they can think abt absrtact concepts and hypothertical events using cognitive skills like reasoning
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Contribution of Piagets to Out Understanding og Cognitive Development in Children and Adolescnece (5)
- helps us to understand child r differentl from adults - found discipline of CD - emphasized cholds active involvment in own development - attempted to explain not only describe development - infuenced research in our areas of development like social and emotianl
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Challenging Piagets work
due to limited tech avaliable and limited # of kids he observed and limited cultural understanding he underestimated kids cognitve abilites
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Les Vygotskys Sociocultural Theory of Development
continue development is inserprave from social and cultural context. cognitive development occurs the support of more knowledge other in a childs workd (MKO) and my vary from cultur to culture
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Zone of Proximal Development
Difference between what a child can do alone or with assistance
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Scaffolding
the support provided in italy to faculate a child learning of a skill may be a lot ( verbal, hand over hand, demonstrating, imitation). as they develop these skills the scaffolding bc less and less
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Importance of language (inner and External)
congivtive developmet: Inner speech or though is used for mental reasoning and regulate own behaviour External speech used to talk with others
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Vygotskys work had significant effect on aspects in education (4)
1. cooperatice and collabroative learning 2. educational implications 3. active collaboration with family 4. active collabroatins with peers look at slide 87
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social and emotional development
a life long process birth to death taht is significantly important to help ppl across the lifespan learn to understand, express, and manage their emotions and form helthy realtionships
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Self Managment
managing emtoions and behaviour to acheives goals
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Self Awareness
recognize ones emotions and values as well as ones strenghts and challenges
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Responsible Decision Making
making ethical, constructive choices abt personal and social behaviour
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Relationship Skills
forming + relationships , working in teams, and dealing effectively with conflict
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Social Awareness
showing understandind and empathy for others
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Development of the Self
beigins at birth and significant development during toddler years
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Rouge Test
- 12m old touches mark on mirror not recognizing its themself - 15m old touches mark on face and knows the person in the mirror is themself
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Social and Emotional development in infants - social smile
appears at 4 weeks indicatin happines
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Social and Emotional development in infants - stranger anxiety
starts at 8/9 months and peaks at 12 to 15 m
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Social and Emotional development in infants 1st year of life
infants begin to fine their emotion expresion which sometimes they experience all emotions at once
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Social and Emotional development in infants - temperament
key factor in emotional regulation but also SoCal relationships - basic emotional styles that appears early in devlopment and is largly gentic in oragina
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Develop self awarnes
ability to reconize ones self
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Social Emotional Attachment
close reciprocal emotion relationship between 2 ppl; someone they feel close with across life span
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Attachement is NOT a Trait or Skill
it is a quality if the inter dependent, bidictional relationship of indivuduals across life span
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Attachment
emotional security is a strong need maintained by the trust in the availability and resposivness of key individuals in our lives during times of distress.
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Role of Father
with parental leaves being shared by rents, there is a increase # of father coming attacment figures
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Cultural Context
in many societies, multiple caregiving can consist of a multiple of aggrangments of care takes and responsibilites
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Attachment sytles
created by Bowly in his orginal conceputalization of attachment but they where related by Mary Ainsworth - Type A = Secure - Type B =Insecure Avoidant - Type c = Insecure anxious ambivalent
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Solomon and George made 4th type of attachement style
- Type D = Discorganized
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Assessing Attachment Security - The Problem
developed by MA - lab test 8 episodes - simulates caregiver - infants behaviour is recorded - attachment style can be determined
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IMPORTANT
strange situation has inherent problems. reasearch indicates the strange situation is not an approperate measure of attachment and not culturally relevent
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Social Emotional Childhood
generally preschool and school age kids r much better to regulate there emotions and understand the,. different in childs social and emotional development can be influence by culture, trust, relationships, and biological factors
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Important factos in social emotianl development of child
friendships begin to form 1. secure attachemnt 2. parenting style 3. cultural differences
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Social and Emotional development Adolsencet
world health org changes adolsecent to be up to the age of 25 cause that is when the brain (prefrontal cortex) has stopped developing. puberty, sex traits, estrogen and andogen present in both sexes through the ratios are differnt
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Estrogen and Andorgen
e is higher in women a is higher in men
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Adolsences emotional development
capacity to regulate emotions is still developing more effectivly able toregulte thie emotions and self control
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Cognitive Reframing
important strategy for dealing with emotions, learning to look at an experience through diff frams (- experience in a + light)
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Risk Taking
adolsence often make impuslive, risk takining or thrill seeking behaviour due in part to the development of their limbo system -reward system (dopamine)
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Underdevelopment of Prefrontal Cortex
responsible for reasoning and reflective thinking that would gerneally minimize impulse beavhour
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Adolsence Social Development
- identity crisis - cursorily / questioning / exploration - peer group - promatic relationship
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Beings in childhood (moral development)
child begin to learn right from wrong by observing which behaviour r punished or rewarded
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Kohlbergs stage of moral reasoning and Carl Gillian Conceputalization of MR
adolsence is a significant period or moral dvelopment with the increase in cognive developemt and abstract reasoning

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