EDUP3023

People always try to understand the world/their environment through the thinking process. Which psychologist share the above statement.

• Arnold Gesell

• Jean Piaget

• Robert Havighurst

• Lev Vygotsky

Which is NOT the cognitive development stage that explained by Piaget?

• Sensory motor

• Preoperational

• Concrete Operational

• Informal Operational

This thinking process occurs when we change existing schemes to respond to a new situation. It involves altering the existing schemes or creating new schemes. Name the concept.

• Organization

• Adaptation

• Accommodation

• Assimilation

Vygotsky believed that _________ is important in cognitive development to encourages building of new ideas, and intellectual development.

Two important key concepts explained in Levy Vygotsky Theory are

• Zone of Proximal Development

• More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)

• Self Communication

• Scaffolding

____________explained children learn with the help of an adult or MKO who are more knowledgeable.

According to Piaget, child at the stage of ____________ has egocentrism, which mean he / she not able to differentiate between self and other.

Child at the stage of concrete operational has the ability to assess reversability, this is the concept of _________________ .

Children at this cognitive stage are ready for increased abstract task, they have ability to read and translate symbols across curriculum.

• Sensory motor

• Pre Operational

• Operational

• Formal Operational

In the process of organizing our mental structures, we tend to make adjustment to the environment to achieve _______________, via two processes of adaption; which are __________________ and _________________ .