Presentation on theme: "Cognition What is Cognition? Why Use Developmental Theories"— Presentation transcript: 1 Cognition What is Cognition? Why Use Developmental Theories Show
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3 Piaget’s Theory Why has it lasted? Piaget believed: 4 Piaget and Developmental Themes
5 Stages Sensorimotor Birth–2 years Understands world through senses and 6 Sensorimotor Stage (Birth–2 years) 7 Substage 4 (8–12 months) Substage 5 (12–18 months) 8 Infant Knowledge of
Gravity 9
Object Permanence Assessment 10 Preoperational Stage ( 2–7 years) 11 12 Assessing Egocentrism: The Three Mountain
Problem 13 Piaget’s three-mountains task 14
15 Egocentrism An example of young children’s egocentric conversations.
16 A 4-year-old’s drawing of a summer day
17 Balance scale study by Case (1992) 18 Piaget’s train problem 19 Assessing Conservation
20 Concrete Operational Stage (7–12 years) 21 Formal Operational Stage (12 and onward) 22 What Piaget Left Positives Negatives 23 Information Processing Theories 24 Developmental Issues 1. Basic Processes 25 Other Information-Processing Theories
26 The overlapping-waves model 27 Core-Knowledge Theories 28 Sociocultural Theories Which statement is not a proposal of the overlappingWhich statement is NOT a proposal of the overlapping-waves model? Children develop only through discovering new strategies.
Which statement does the overlappingWith which statement does the overlapping-waves theory agree? With development, children add strategies to their repertoire without removing older strategies.
Which of the following would not be considered a basic process by the information processing theories?Hence, we conclude that using selected information is not one of the stages of Information Processing Theory.
Which theory emphasizes that children's development is a product of their surrounding culture and interactions with other people?Sociocultural theories
Theory founded in large part by Lev Vygotsky that emphasizes how other people and the attitudes, values, and beliefs of the surrounding culture influence children's development.
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