Paper3 : Cognition And Development

Question 1

Piaget theory of cognitive development

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Maturation causes changes in the way children think. Result of active discovery and experience

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Schemas

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Units of knowledge. Based on our experience

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Motivation to learn

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When our existing schema does not allow us to make sense of something new. Leads to disequilibrium.

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Equilibration

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Restoring balance between experience and schema by exploring

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Assimilation

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Adding new information to existing schema

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Accommodation

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Radically change schema or add new ones

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Lifespan learning

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Happens throughout life as our experiences present new knowledge

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Stages of intellectual development

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4 stages each with different level of cognitive reasoning

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Sensorimotor stage

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0-2 years
Basic coordination and language
Object permenace develops at 8 months
Understanding that objects still exist when they are out of sight

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Preoperational stage

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2-7 years
Ego centrism
Lack of class inclusion
Struggle with conservation

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Egocentrism

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See world from one’s own perspective
3 mountains task by Piaget
Children asked to pick a picture to show what the doll can see. Struggles to pick photo that is what the doll can see

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Class inclusion

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Idea that classifications have subsets.
Picture of 5 dogs and 2 cats and asked if they are more dogs than animals. Children under 8 said dogs

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Conservation

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Mathematical understanding that quantity remains constant even when appearance of object changes
Pouring water between beakers

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Stage of concrete operations

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7-11 years
Can conserve, less egocentric, better at class inclusion, struggle with abstract thinking

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Formal operations stage

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11 years +
Abstract reasoning develops, can understand syllogisms

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Vygotsky

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Cognitive abilities are acquired in social interactions. Reflect local adults. Cultural differences

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Zone of proximal development

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Gap between current and potential abilities. What they can do with expert helper, more knowledgable other

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Scaffolding

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All help given by expert to guide children through some of proximal development. Progressive leading to independent

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Wood et al

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Recruitment - engaging learners interest
Reduction in degrees of freedom - focusing learner and getting them started
Direction maintenance - motivating learner

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Progressive strategies

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More help at the start

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Baillargeon

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Suggested babies had better understanding of the word, lack of ability was from poor motor skills or distractions

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Violation of expectation research

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Babies attention to unexpected and expected events are compared and timed
Showed 24 5-6 months old babies a short and tall rabbit passing behind a window
Babies looked longer in the unexpected window (tall rabbit didn’t appear in window )

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Infant physical reasoning

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Babies are born with physical reasoning system including object permanence

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Selmans level of perspective taking

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Understanding what someone else is feeling or thinking. Believed social perspective taking develops separately from other cognitive development

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Stage 0

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Socially egocentric (3-6 years) Child cannot distinguish between own emotions and others

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Stage1

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Social information role taking 6 - 8 years Can distinguish between their own view point and that of others but not at same time

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Stage2

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Self reflective role taking 8-10 years A child can explain the position of another person and appreciate their perspective, but can still only appreciate one view at a time.

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Stage 3

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Mutual role taking 10- 12 years can consider own point of view and that of others at the same time

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Stage 4

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Social and conventional system role taking 12 + years A child recognises that understanding others’ viewpoints is not enough to allow people to reach agreement. Social conventions are needed to keep order. E.g. personal decisions are made with reference to social conventions, such as humanely treating animals

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Selma’s research

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Cross sectional study 60 4,5,6, year olds on perspective taking abilities and found significant positive correlations between age and perspective taking

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Theory of mind

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Ability to mind read. Develops around 3-4 years old. Autistic children may find social interaction difficult due to ToM deficit

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Intentional reasoning research

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Meltzoffe demonstrated that 8 months old understand intention, basic ToM. Beads in a jar

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False belief tasks

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Wimmer and perner From 4 years maxi chocolate study

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Sally Anne task

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False belief task where sally looks in wrong place for marble because she doesn’t know Anne moved it Baron cohen et al found ToM rare in ASD children

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Eyes task

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Older ASD children and adults perform well on false belief tasks, used eyes task to show adults also had ToM deficits

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Mirror neuron system

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Mirror neurons are cells that respond to the motor activity of others. First observed in monkeys. Help us understand intentions. Helps us take others perspectives. Key to evolution. ASD may have broken mirror