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What is the Preoperational stage?
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The 2nd stage of cognitive development in which the preschooler learns to use language as a means of exploring the world (ages 2-7)
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What is the Concrete Operational stage?
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The 3rd stage of cognitive development in which the school aged child becomes capable of the logical thought process but is yet not capable of abstract thinking.
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What can the child understand in the Concrete Operational stage?
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Conservation, Reversibility, and decentration.
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What is the Formal Operations stage?
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Piagets last stage of cognitive development in which the adolescent becomes capable of abstract thinking.
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What is Scaffolding?
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The process in which a more skilled learner gives help to a less skilled learner, reducing the amount of help as the less skilled learner becomes more capable.
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What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
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The key area for skill and knowledge development.
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What are the stages of language?
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Cooing, babbling, one word speech, telegraphic speech, and whole sentences.
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What is the Language Acquisition Device?
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According to Chomsky its the innate language schema that governs the learning of language.
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What are the limitations during the Preoperational Stage?
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Egocentrism, centration, conservation, irreversibility.
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What are the criticisms of Piagets Theory?
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The sequential ordering of stages has been questioned that there is more of a gradual process in child development than abrupt.
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