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Developmental Psychology Module 5
Cognitive Development Exam Study Guide
Lev Vgotsky - Answer✔believed that children actively construct their knowledge base through
interactions with more skilled people. That might be teachers, parent, and even older children
Social cultural theory of development - Answer✔Viewed development as an apprenticeship for
"real" life
Tools of culture - Answer✔Reading, language, computers - to be successful
Children will master this best when working in a - Answer✔Zone of Proximal development
Children will master this gaining of skills best when working in a - Answer✔Zone of Proximal
development
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) - Answer✔Range of tasks too difficult for child to master
alone; can be mastered with guidance and assistance from more-skilled person
Scaffolding - Answer✔Changing level of support over course of a teaching session to fit child's
current performance level and to help increase their knowledge and thought so they can
advance, removing that support when no longer needed
Inner Speech - Answer✔An important tool of thought
Piaget - Answer✔children actively engage in the world around them and develop ways of
thinking in response to that interaction
Piaget says - Answer✔children have Schemes or scripts
As we mature we use - Answer✔Assimilation
And Accommodation to use - Answer✔new information
Equilibration - Answer✔Explanation of cognitive shift (qualitative) from one stage of thought to
next
Disequilibrium - Answer✔cognitive conflict motivation for change
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Developmental Psychology Module 5
Cognitive Development Exam Study Guide
Lev Vgotsky - Answer✔believed that children actively construct their knowledge base through
interactions with more skilled people. That might be teachers, parent, and even older children
Social cultural theory of development - Answer✔Viewed development as an apprenticeship for
"real" life
Tools of culture - Answer✔Reading, language, computers - to be successful
Children will master this best when working in a - Answer✔Zone of Proximal development
Children will master this gaining of skills best when working in a - Answer✔Zone of Proximal
development
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) - Answer✔Range of tasks too difficult for child to master
alone; can be mastered with guidance and assistance from more-skilled person
Scaffolding - Answer✔Changing level of support over course of a teaching session to fit child's
current performance level and to help increase their knowledge and thought so they can
advance, removing that support when no longer needed
Inner Speech - Answer✔An important tool of thought
Piaget - Answer✔children actively engage in the world around them and develop ways of
thinking in response to that interaction
Piaget says - Answer✔children have Schemes or scripts
As we mature we use - Answer✔Assimilation
And Accommodation to use - Answer✔new information
Equilibration - Answer✔Explanation of cognitive shift (qualitative) from one stage of thought to
next
Disequilibrium - Answer✔cognitive conflict motivation for change
1
