HDF 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Grass Green, Attention Span, Pragmatics

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Both stages occur between the ages of 2-6 years old. Emphasis on sensorimotor thinking, operations, conservation, centration, and transformation. Education is refined to meet children"s cognitive stage. Emphasis on zone of proximal development and scaffolding. Education is key to children"s cognitive development. Stage when toddlers are able to think and process information particularly through symbols, signs and words, develop the ability to reason, and develop more symbolic thoughts. Representational skills - create imaginary experiences with others. Operations - organized, formal, logical mental processes (feldman, 2015, p. 160) Before this point, toddlers have difficulties with this preoperational stage. Centration - focusing on 1 factor while ignoring other factors. Conservation - the knowledge that quantity is unrelated to the arrangement and physical appearance of objects (feldman, 2015, p. 161) Example: toddler thinks that the amount of liquid changes when it is put into a different container. Transformation - the process in which one state is changed into another (feldman,

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