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Information-processing Theories
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active learners and problem solvers
find ways to overcome limits and reach goals memory (capacity and processing speed) planning/analogical reasoning |
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Vocab for Information-processing Theories
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rehearsal
selective attention over-lapping waves overoptimism analogical reasoning |
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Core-knowledge theories
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theories of biology, psychology, and physics
well-equiped products of evolution children perceived as active thinkers that form theories special language learning mechanism |
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core-knowledge theories definition
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approaches that emphasize the sophistication of infants' and young children's' thinking in areas that have been important throughout human evolutionary history
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Sociocultural theories
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Vygotsky's Theory: portrayed children as social beings shaped by, and shaping their cultural contexts
children as teachers and listeners children as products of culture |
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Vocab for sociocultural theories
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social scaffolding
guided participation joint attention intersubjectivity cultural tools private speech |
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Dynamic-systems Theories
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children are motivated to explore/learn (persist to walk even though crawling will get them where they need to go)
mirror neurons (mirroring someone else's actions) actions shape memory, vocabulary, and categorization self-organization change occurs through methods of variation and selection no period in which change is not occurring |
