GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Question
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Guided participation
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Mutual exclusivity
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Transitive inference
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Overlapping waves
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term cognitive development refers to the process of growth and change in intellectual/mental abilities such as thinking, reasoning and understanding. It includes the acquisition and consolidation of knowledge.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jean Piaget was a Swiss biologist and psychologist who developed theories of cognitive development based on his observation of children and through experiments with children to discover how they learn and develop and to determine at what age they acquire various knowledge and skills.
Detailed explanation-3: -Piaget proposed four major stages of cognitive development, and called them (1) sensorimotor intelligence, (2) preoperational thinking, (3) concrete operational thinking, and (4) formal operational thinking.
Detailed explanation-4: -The zone of proximal development (ZPD), or zone of potential development, refers to the range of abilities an individual can perform with the guidance of an expert, but cannot yet perform on their own.