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Piaget: Pros
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- good overview of children's thinking @ different points - appealing perspective - broad spectrum of development & ages
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Piaget: Cons
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- stage model depicts children's thinking as being more consistent then is likely - infants and young ppl are more cognitively competent then he recognised - vague about cognitive processes the give rise o children's thinking about the mechanisms that produce cognitive growth
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Piagets stages: sensory motor (0-2).
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understand world through senses and actions
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Piagets stages: preoperational (2-7)
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understand through symbols and mental stages
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Piagets stages: concrete operational (7-12)
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understand world through logical thinking and categories
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Piagets stages: formal operational (12-adult)
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understand world through hypothetical thinking and scientific reasoning
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Continuous development:
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gradual process like a tree growing taller each year
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Discontinuous development:
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involving sudden dramatic changes such as transition from caterpillar to cocoon to butterfly
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The brain: continues developing past infancy. @ birth the brain is ....% its adult weight. @ 2 years of age it is .....% of its adult weight.
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25, 75
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Core knowledge systems are limited in a # of ways; - they are d...........n specific, t........... specific & e....................
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domain, task, encapsulated
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