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Cognitive Change: Cognitive-Developmental and Sociocultural Approaches Chapter 6 Week 4, Lecture 1 February 5, 2024 1 Reflection Feedback Avoid extra unnecessary words Title of the podcast ”interesting correlations” Be specific when describing what you learned from the video and podcasts Include wor...

Cognitive Change: Cognitive-Developmental and Sociocultural Approaches Chapter 6 Week 4, Lecture 1 February 5, 2024 1 Reflection Feedback Avoid extra unnecessary words Title of the podcast ”interesting correlations” Be specific when describing what you learned from the video and podcasts Include word count Draw connections between podcasts/video lectures/documentaries and content learned in class/textbook. Piaget’s legacy Piaget’s theories are vague about mechanisms Infants and young children are more cognitively competent then Piaget recognized Stage model characterizes thinking as more consistent than it is Understates contribution of social world Sociocultural theories Cognitive development arises through interactions between children and other people who want to help children acquire skills, knowledge, beliefs and attitudes valued by their culture Vygotsky: We are embedded in a context that shapes how we think and who we become. Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Perspective Scaffolding and Guided Participation: Social experiences teach children how to think. Guided Participation: form of sensitive teaching in which the partner is attuned to needs of the child and helps him or her accomplish more than the child could do alone Scaffolding: assistance that permits the child to bridge the gap between his or her current competence level and the task at hand. 5 Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Perspective Zone of Proximal Development: The gap between a child’s competence level (what he or she can do alone) and what he or she can do with assistance 8 Limitations to Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Perspective Criticized for lack of precision Not easily testable Does not address underlying cognitive capacities 10 Cognitive Development in Adulthood Epistemic Cognition: Ways in which individuals understand the nature of knowledge and how they arrive at ideas, beliefs, and conclusions 11 Cognitive Development in Adulthood Postformal Reasoning 12 Cognitive Development in Adulthood Pragmatic Thought: Emphasizes the use of logic to address everyday problems Cognitive Affective Complexity: Capacity to be aware of emotions, integrate positive and negative feelings about an issue, and regulate intense emotions to make logical decisions about complicated issues 13