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  • Studying Cognitive Development: Six Approaches
    • Behaviorist approach
    • Psychometric approach
    • Piagetian approach
    • Information processing approach
    • Cognitive neuroscience
    • Social-contextual

  • Behaviorist Approach
    • Classical and operant conditioning
    • Infant memory

    Psychometric Approach

    • Testing infants and toddlers
    • Assessing the home
    • Socioeconomic status, parenting practices and IQ
    • Early intervention

  • Piagetian Approach
    • Substages of the sensorimotor stage
    • Imitative abilities
    • Knowledge about objects and space
    • Object permanence
    • Symbolic development
    • Evaluating Piaget's sensorimotor stage
    • Habituation
    • Visual and auditory processing abilities
    • Information processing as a predictor of intelligence
    • Information processing and development of Piagetian abilities

  • Language Development
    • The evolution of language
    • Sequence of early language development
    • Characteristics of early speech
    • Classic theories of language acquisition
    • Influences on language development
    • Preparing for literacy








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