Quiz 3 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Nature
Innate factors and biology determine development
Nurture
Experience and environment influence development
Modularity nativism nativist view
Nature as the driving force
Modularity nativism: General intelligence hypothesis
Larger brains allow humans to perform cognitive functions more efficiently (examples: memory, learning, etc.)
Modularity nativism: evolutionary importance
Humans have evolved specific perceptual and cognitive abilities essential for adaptation
Modularity nativism: Adapted intelligence hypothesis
As with physical evolution, cognitive abilities also involved in response to specific environmental challenges
Modularity nativism: Cultural intelligence hypothesis
Powerful cognitive skills humans possess are due to social cognitive skills emerge very early in life and are used to absorb the specialized skills and knowledge of their cultural group
Modularity nativism: modularity
Domain Specific, The mind is made up of distinct but loosely connected modules, knowledge develops its own rate in each of these domains
Evidence to support modularity nativism
Domain specific knowledge in infants, predisposition to learn language, death infants babbling, infants understanding biology, infants know numbers, infants moral reasoning
The theory theory
a view of how concepts are structured, acquired, and deployed.
Naive folk theories: theory theory
Children have theories about the world, even young infants have theories; mechanisms for constructing there must be innate
Theories are:
Abstract, coherent, and internally consistent
Theories are used to:
Make casual inferences and explanations, predict future events, explain previous events
Theories our domain specific:
Capacity to abstract information is innate, allowing for emergence of theories and therefore capacities much earlier
Classroom implications with the theory theory
Domains passivity, come to learning environment with prior knowledge
Ecological systems theory
Bronfenbrenner; five environmental systems with which an individual interacts.
Bronfenbrenner
Influence by Vygotsky and Kurt Lewis, developed in 70s and 80s
4 original systems
Microsystem, mesosystem, Exosystem, macrosystem
Microsystem
The child immediate environment, patterns, activities, rolls, interpersonal relations, settings
Mesosystems
Connections between immediate environment, focus on changes in behavior as a child moves from one city to another example interaction between home and school
Exosystems
Settings that indirectly affect the individual, setting individuals not directly in contact with but still has an influence on
Macrosystem
The larger cultural context, culture laws norms economic conditions, eastern versus a western culture
Chronosystem
The patterning of environmental events and transitions over the course of life of the individual
Implications for development and education
Bi-directional interactions, outside influences and packed classrooms, community support systems for families like after school programs
