These stages are cumulative and integrated into one another
distancing
a basic perceptual principle affecting those cognitive changes that apparently precede and lay the foundation for language acuistion (Lennenburg). The infant is trying to understand her world primarily through touch, taste, and smell.
object performance
knowing that objects exist in time and space even if you can't see or act on them.
Vygotsky believed
that the developing child interacts with her enviornment
Vygotsky's Theory of Cognitive Development
relationship between cognition and language
heavily influenced by the enviornment and culture
cognitive development is continus not stage by stage
Intersubjectivity and scaffolding have been found to help the process of transferring
private speech- talking to you self as getting older becomes internal
Intersubjectivity
being able to accomadate with someone else to get a task completed.
Dynamic Systems Theory
Emergent product of the real - time interaction of many components
Physical and cognitive abilities
specifies of the task
state of system in the just; previous past
child'd individual developmental history of percieving and acting
Always changing system of how the child works
perception
refers to the process by which person selects, organizes integrates and interprets the sensory stimuli he recieves
cognitive blends with perception at about ages 2-5
Excutive function
presumes the child has the ability to talk clearly
a set of control processes in the human brain that allow us to maintain attention, inhibit irrelevant association, and use working memory
working memory
allows for the voluntarly focused, and exclusive processing and maintance of task- relevant information
theory of mind
is an understanding of mental states that happens in time. Assists us in considering other people's thoughts feelings and knowledge
bilingual speakers are better at this
Vygotsky Zone of Proximal Development
where a child plateaued and needs a more experiences person to help them through the zone.
scaffolding
building on previous knowledge
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cognitive development : Building a foundation for language