PSYC 581 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Egocentrism
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Thinking: piaget: preoperational intelligence, do not use logical thinking, symbolic thought, related to, language, animism ( daddy, do the clouds go to sleep too?"") Imagination: four limitations, centration (egocentrism, focus on appearance, static reasoning. Irreversibility: conservation tasks, volume, number, matter, length, limitations to piaget"s research, require words, modifications, simplified or more playful, results in better performance of younger children, gradual process, benefit from active, guided experience. Identify what a student already knows: build on this knowledge (scaffold, guided practice, connect new learning with prior knowledge. Impact of scaffolding on memory: elaboration, disadvantages to scaffolding, imitate undesirable behavior, overimitation, language as a tool, private speech (talking to self, social mediation. Children"s theories: children construct theories to explain everything, theory-theory, theories do not appear randomly, revisions, theory of mind, usually emerges after age 4, false-belief task. Sally-anne test"": slower to develop in, deaf children, autistic children, related to lying, more logical liar has more advanced theory of mind.