Cluster 2 Anita Woolfolk's Educational Psychology
Cluster 2 Anita Woolfolk's Educational Psychology
Cluster 2 Anita Woolfolk's Educational Psychology
OVERVIEW:
Development
Piaget
Stages of Cognitive Development
Vygotsky
Language
Development
• Types of development?
– Physical
– Personal
– Social
– Cognitive
– Maturation
• Principles of Development
– different rates
– orderly
– gradual
The Brain and Cognitive Development
QUIZ
• Identify the areas of the brain that are responsible for the following
functions.
1. Infancy (0-2)
• 2-7 years
•Difficulty with use of operations-reversible thinking
•Formation and use of symbols
•Semiotic functions
•Collective Monologue
•Due to lack of reversibility
•egocentric
•not able to decenter, calssify. conserve, and
seriate
Stage 3-Later Elementary to Middle School:
Concrete Operational Stage
• 7-11 years
• Complete and logical system of thinking
• Capable of concrete problem solving and reversibility of operations
– “Hands-on” thinking
– conserve matter
– seriate
– classify
– decenter
– identity
– compensation
Stage 4-Junior and Senior High: Formal Operational Stage
Age 11-15 (not all reach this stage)
•Hypothetico-deductive and inductive reasoning
•Systematically generate possibilities for given situation
•consider alternatives
•adolescent egocentrism
•not all reach this stage, not necessary for survival
Lev Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Perspective
Sociocultural Theory
Children watch interactions among people in their world, interact with
others and make use of these interactions in their own development.
• Cultural Tools
• Language and Private Speech
– allows younger children to guide behavior and thinking
– Transitions to private speech-help solve problems
– Children using private speech are communicating with themselves
– Self-regulation
Parent tells child “NO” when in danger
Child says no to another child in the same predicament
Child says no to self
Use of quiet-inner speech to self regulate
• Piaget • Vygotsky
– development precedes – development and
learning learning influence
– person must be in a each other
certain stage to grasp – cognitive development
certain concepts progresses as children
– development is due learn
primarily to biological – emphasized
growth and efforts to importance of social
make sense of the interaction and child’s
world culture