Beyond Piaget – Core Knowledge

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1. Describe the key elements of the argument that Core Knowledge is a view of cognitive development separate from Piaget’s view. The core knowledge theory is the view that children are born with basic knowledge of the world and certain abilities. Piaget believed children are naturally curious and want to learn from their experiences, meaning that children develop by interacting with their environment. Core knowledge theorists believe that children’s theories are focused on core domains, rather than being all-encompassing as Piaget proposed. 2. Describe the key elements of the argument that Core Knowledge is an extension of Piaget’s view of cognitive development. Core knowledge is an extension of Piaget’s view of cognitive development through the fact that the core knowledge theory extends on Piaget’s idea that children draw more specific conclusions from the knowledge they have. Piaget claimed that understanding of objects develops slowly in children. Other theorists/investigators, however, have used detailed procedures to show that babies do indeed understand objects much earlier than Piaget claimed. Children have also been found able by other theorists to construct and interpret new ideas based on preexisting knowledge. 3. What do you think and why? I agree with the other theorists in that children’s theories are focused on core domains and that they can construct new ideas/solutions based on experiences and previous knowledge. I think this because there seem to have been more proven procedures and ex periments on these theories and Piaget’s ideas. 4. Give specific examples of the naïve theories. Your examples should build on the information provided in the text — do not repeat the examples from the text — think of your own examples. What might a child do that would indicate to you the child has a naïve understanding of each theory? Name the specific objects/situations and describe exactly what would happen. a) Naïve physics – The baby is pushing the toy truck back and forth when another baby realizes that when he pushed the toy it will move and the harder he pushes, the further the truck will travel. The baby then begins to have the expectation that whatever he pushes will move. b) Naïve biology – A child and her mother are at the zoo where the girl sees all the animals moving around, doing their own thing. She then sees a zookeeper moving a large rock into one of the exhibits. The child can understand the difference between animate and inanimate objects by knowing that the animals can move on their own because they are living while the large rock needs to be moved by someone as it is non-living.

c) Naïve psychology – A father was at the grocery store with his daughter trying to grab something off the top shelf. He was leaning over the shopping cart reaching for it on his tip toes. He then decided to move the shopping cart out of the way but continued to reach on his tip toes. His daughter was watching him do this and became confused as to why he still reached the way he did now that the cart had been moved. The daughter was surprised that her father used the same method of reaching for the grocery item when it seemed like he didn’t need to reach anymore.

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