Cognitive Development

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Cognitive Development

• Middle Childhood

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Piaget

• Concrete Operations
• Mental representation is used to solve concrete
  problems
• Advances
• Space-children at this age can find their way to
  and from school
• Measurement skills
• Causality- children understand how physical
  attributes effect an object. Number of objects on
  a scale

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Piaget

• Categorization- seriation- ordering objects
• Transitive inference-understanding the
  relationship of two objects by knowing the
  relationship of each to a third object
• A child is shown three sticks. One green, one
  yellow and one blue.
• She is shown that the yellow stick is longer than
  the green one and the green one is longer than
  the blue one. She knows without comparing them
  that the yellow one is longer than the blue one.
• Class inclusion-understanding relation between
  whole and its parts
• A child understands that when shown a bunch of
  flowers-10, 7 roses and 3 carnations- and asked
  which is more the roses or the flowers, they
  understand that roses are part of the subcategory
  of flower.

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Piaget

• Inductive and Deductive reasoning
• Inductive-Jere is a dog. My dog barks. So does
  your dog. All dogs must bark. The problem is
  that they may run into an exception.
• Deductive- All dogs bark. Spot is a dog. Spot
  barks. Begin with class and then move to a
  specific.
• Conservation-
• Reversibility
• Centration

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IQ Testing

• Developed by Alfred Binet
• Mental age divided by chronological age
  multiplied by 100.
• 7 mentally, 6 chronologically1.17 100117 IQ
• 70 or lt
• 130 or gt

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Multiple Intelligences

• No two children are alike
• No two children learn in the identical way
• An enriched environment for one student is not
  necessarily enriched for another
• In the classroom we should teach children to
  think for themselves
• Marion Diamonds (2002)

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Your brain is like a chandelier with ten
different light bulbs of different intensities.
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Verbal/LinguisticIntelligence(Word Smart)

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• Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence
• (Music Smart)

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Logical/Mathematical Intelligence(Math Smart)

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Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence (Body Smart)

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Visual/Spatial Intelligence(Spatial Smart)
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Naturalist  Intelligence(Nature Smart)
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Interpersonal Intelligence (people smart)
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• Intrapersonal Intelligence (self smart)

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Existential Intelligence(Wondering Smart)

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Activity

• A second grade teacher has children read a
  section of the story about a child who lives on a
  farm. In this section, fall and the harvest are
  described. After the children have read part of
  the story, the teacher asks comprehension
  questions What did the boy do when his father
  scolded him for playing and not working? How did
  he feel? What did he do next?

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