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Piaget's Theory


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- Convey texture of children's thinking at diff ages
- Infancy through adolescence
- Offers explanation of nature & nurture




Space (empiricist)


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Adaptively combine spatial and non-spatial info to reach goals

,poverty of reinforcement


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children are simply not reinforced or trained to use language
- would be too hard to do




Children organize into 3 informal theories


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1. Theory of physics
2. Theory of psychology
3. Theory of biology




mathematics disabilities


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general difficulty in thinking about numbers




IDS characteristics


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- Emotional tone
- Pitch pattern

, - Exaggeration (slower, higher, facial expressions)
- Common, not universal




Measuring Intelligence Critics


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Ceci and Stenberg
- Intelligence = too complex to measure
- Culturally biased
- Reduction to a IQ score is simplistic & not ethical




Dyslexia


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relation between poor phonological recoding skills and reading disability




Measuring Intelligence Advocates


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(Gottfredson, Horn, McArdle)
- Better than alternate methods like grades/job success/stand tests
- Valuable for making decision on education level
- Teacher & counselor bias may be greater




Syntactic development

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the learning of the syntax of a language- learning how words and
morphemes are combined




modularity hypothesis


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the idea that the human brain contains an innate, self-contained language
module that is separate from other aspects of cognitive functioning




Problem solving


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the process of attaining a goal by using a strategy to overcome an obstacle
- Children are active problem solvers




Sensorimotor Stage


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in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during
which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions
and motor activities

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