CLD 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Preterm Birth, Pragmatics, Head Start (Program)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 103
• Professor: Rachel Caplan

Document Summary

Cld103 week 3: cognitive development in early childhood (chapter 9) Piaget"s cognitive development: sensorimotor (birth-age 2, preoperational (~2-7, concrete operational (~7-11, formal operational (~adolescence-adult) Advances of preoperational thought: symbolic function, ability to use symbols or mental representations, preschool children show symbolic function through, deferred imitation: based on having kept a mental representation of an observed action (eg. Fridge: transduction, child"s tendency to mentally link particular experiences, whether or not there is logically a causal relationship, eg. Every time a plane flies by, the dog barks relate the dogs bark to a. Toys become humans: number, ordinality: concept of comparing quantities, basic level of number skills, counting, number knowledge, number transformations, estimation, recognition of number patterns, cardinality: each object represents 1 (eg. Preoperational thought: centration: tendency of preoperational children to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others, centering , egocentrism: inability to consider another person"s point of view (eg.