GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITIVE THEORIES
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Question
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To symphasize with others’ feelings and intentions.
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To put someone else in the centre of attention
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To give someone else power
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To take someone out of a group sitting in a circle
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Detailed explanation-1: -Margaret Donaldson is a constructivist. She believes that children make mistakes due to not responding to what they had been asked but because they were trying to understand the meaning of the activity. She suggested that children seek to make ‘human’ sense of situations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term “empathy” is used to describe a wide range of experiences. Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people’s emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.
Detailed explanation-3: -Theory of mind is the ability to imagine and understand our own mental states and the mental states of others (e.g. desires, beliefs or thoughts). It first appears during preschool years and continues to develop into late adulthood.
Detailed explanation-4: -Centration is the act of focusing all attention on one characteristic or dimension of a situation while disregarding all others. An example of centration is a child focusing on the number of pieces of cake that each person has, regardless of the size of the pieces.