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Week 2: Understanding Human Development
Cognitive and Language Development
The structure of the brains associate the working of mind
Specialization:
Different parts of the brain have different functions.
Lateralisation
: certain function are located on one side of the brain. e.g.: Left hemisphere of the brain specialized in verbal processing while right is specialized in non-verbal processing.
Cognitive Development Theories
Physical-social-cognitive
(Jean Piaget)
The thinking process are based on how it
makes sense of the world
Four factors:
Biological maturation
,
activity
,
social experience
, and
equilibration
Two basic tendencies: organisation and adaptations
Four stages of cognitive developments:
Sensorimotor
-
Pre-operational
-
Concrete operational
-
Formal operational
Social-cognitive
(Lev Vygotsky)
Sociacultural context for intelligence
Two main forces:
Social interaction
and
mediation
Language development
Theories
Behaviorism (Skinner)
Constructivism (Piaget)
Social Interactionism (Bruner)
Nativism (Chomsky)
Trends in Language development
Stages of development
First two years of life
: able to combine noun and verbs to create speech
2-3 years
: able to make a full sentence
Primary school
: language proficiency has increase
Secondary school
: Metalinguistic awareness increase
Semantic development
Definition
: knowledge of the meaning words
Words meaning
Undergeneralization
Overgeneralization
Aeron Tan Kwok Hou (A19HP0003)