Stevie

//Memorandum//
Chapter 6 is about Cognitive Development in Infancy. Piaget assumed that all children pass through a series of four universal stages in a fixed order from birth through adolescence. Also that movement from one stage to the next occurred when a child reaches an appropriate level of physical maturation and is exposed to relevant experiences. Piaget suggested two principles underlie the growth in children's schemes: assimilation and accommodation. Some people disagree with Piaget's theory and lean more toward Information Processing. According to this approach, the quantitative changes in infants' abilities to organize and manipulate information represent the hallmarks of cognitive development. Information Processing has three basic aspects: Encoding, storage, and retrieval. We also learn from this chapter that memory increases with age. Infants are able to recognize new stimuli, and this helps their memory capabilities increase. There are three approaches used to detect differences in intelligence during infancy: Developmental quotient, Bayley scales of Infant Development, Visual-recognition memory measurement. Each of these developmental scales relates performance in different domains. Infants have many ways of communicating when they are beginning to talk, and some of the ways are: babbling, holophrases, telegraphic speech, underextension, overextension, referential style, and expressive style. There are three approaches to language and how infants obtain it: Learning theory (language is a learned skill), Nativist approach (language is an innate skill), Interactionist approach (combination of the other two). Infant-directed speech is how a parent communicates with his/her child, and this can vary with gender and culture.

**//Questions//**
//1) How is Piaget's theory and Information Processing theory different?// (ii) Use knowledge of how children differ in their development and approaches to learning to support the development and learning of individual children. //2) What are the foundations of information processing? And why are they important?// (ii) Use knowledge of how children differ in their development and approaches to learning to support the development and learning of individual children. (maybe) //3) What are the 4 stages of Piaget's theory?// (ii) Use knowledge of how children differ in their development and approaches to learning to support the development and learning of individual children. (maybe)

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