Cognitive development in early childhood

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Cognitive development in early childhood

• Responses to Piaget

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Making problems more relevant
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Policeman problem

• More relevant to childs experience
• Can solve even at 3 years
• Suggests can decentre

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Pretending

• Lying
• Comforting

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Class inclusion

• Fail other problems
• Pass some class inclusion problems e.g. Teddy and
  steps
• Cowboys and Indians

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Toy cows and horses

• Cows
• Black Black White White
• Black Black Black White
• Horses

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Teddy and his steps

• Teddy Chair Table
• Chair Table
• Teddy

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Making sure children understand

• Present task nonverbally
• Change language

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Making sure adults can do the task

• Precausal reasoning
• Correlations
• Class inclusion

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Reducing limitations

• Memory
• Verbal
• Relevance