Human Growth and Development
Lecture 8 - Physical & Cognitive Development - Early Childhood
2/14/06
- Physical Changes
- Body growth
- thinner proportions w/ increased height
- brain changes
- Motor Development
- Gross motor skills
- Fine motor skills
- Nutrition
- Cognitive Changes
- Piaget - Preoperational Stage
- Operation
- Symbolic Function Substage
- Intuitive Thought Substage
- Vygotsky
- Zone of Proximal Development
- Scaffolding
- Language
- Cognitive Immaturity
- May be adaptive
- Metacognition
- Egocentrism
- Language Development
- Rule Systems
- Vocabulary
- Actual conversations!
- Early Education
- Does preschool matter?
- Learning to read
- Can intervention help?
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Last updated: 2/14/06