TOPIC 2: COGNITIVE, LANGUAGE & LITERACY

_________ occurs when children incorporate new information into their existing schemas.

• Assimilation

• Accomodation

• Organization

• Equilibration

The _________ which lasts from birth to about 2 years of age, is the first Piagetian stage.

• preoperational

• concrete operational

• formal operational

• sensorimotor

Egocentric is an act of ______

• fulfilling someone else needs and wants

• concentrating on self-desire and rather self-centred

• isolating oneself from other people

The concrete operational stage, the third Piagetian stage of cognitive development, lasts from ________

Vygotsky’s term for the range of tasks that are too difficult for the child to master alone but that can be learned with ___________ of adults or more-skilled children.

_________ means changing the level of support.

• Intuitive thought

• Zone of Proximal Development

• Scaffolding

Language for self-regulation is called _____