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Piaget - n
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Constructivist perspective of learning in explaining how children build or construct
knowledge of their world children construct knowledge through interactions with
others and through their experience using thought process of assimilation and
accommodation
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Assimilation - n
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What are the processes that children used to construct knowledge they take new
information into existing cognitive structure of score schema
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Accommodation - n
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The process children used to construct knowledge refers to how children can or will
change existing understanding to adopt new knowledge and revise extend or
expand their concepts Jones
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Piaget's stages of cognitive development - n
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Sensorimotor preoperational concrete operational formal operations
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Sensorimotor - n
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First two years centers on own body game information through motor activity in the
senses makes mobile move by swatting at it
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Preoperational - n
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2 to 7 years old use a symbol of words painting joint movements to represent
experience and images in their mind draws a picture of the flower in the garden at
home for you see you a tall glass of water having more water than the shorter glass
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Concrete operational - n
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7 to 11 years old no longer tricked by appearances think more logically but are
limited to thinking about concrete objects the glasses of water the older children
would say all you did was pour the same water in the tall glass
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Formal operations - n
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11 years through the rest of the life applies to logic to abstract ideas solve problems
efficiently can identify probable causes for a for a computer that freezes up or car
that does not start
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Vygotsky - n
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Early childhood educators have used major ideas in his constructed it is sis theory
to develop curriculum and instructional practice these ideas include the rule of
social interaction and caulking development and children's learning and the role of
language and children's development and learning