EDUC 1000 Jdietric Study Guide Chapter 7: Emotional and Social Development Infancy And

EDUC 1000 jdietric Study Guide Chapter 9: Early Childhood (2-6):Cognitive

My Theme: The Know It All! (preschooler) HUGE advances in mental presentation--thinking and problem solving. EGOcentrism!

1. Describe mental representation. How does the preschooler think? What are their capabilities? What are examples? What is early metacognition about? 2. Discuss the preschoolers’ mental limitations? Explain EGOCENTRICISM. What about memory strategies? 3. What are the changes in make-believe important to the preschoolers play? What are examples? How does this kind of play contribute to the child understanding their world? 4. What is preoperational thought? Piaget thought there were deficiencies in preoperational thought. What are they? 5. Describe the educational principles that are derived from Piaget’s theory? One would be discovery learning? And…. 6. Describe Vygotsky’s social origins and significance of children’s private speech? 7. Compare and contrast Vygotsky’s and Piaget’s point of view on children’s private speech. 8. Discuss applications of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory to education. One would be scaffolding? And… 9. With examples, discuss dual representation. Conservation? Centration? Categorization? 10. Describe early literacy and mathematical development. What can they do? 11. Explain how we can ENHANCE their development. Home? Preschool? Kindergarten? Child care? And Educational media? 12. Discuss, with example, language development---vocabulary, grammar, and conversational skills? Emergent literacy….what is it? 13. Explain factors that support language learning in early childhood. 14. What is available for children of low SES? 15. AND, of course, what kind of parenting so we have? Authoritative? Permissive? Authoritarian?

What can they do now? Think examples. Be able to describe the new thinker.