This document discusses several theories of cognitive development, including Vygotsky's sociocultural theory and information processing theories. Vygotsky believed that social interaction and culture play important roles in cognitive development. His theory emphasizes how learning occurs in the Zone of Proximal Development through social interactions. Information processing theories view thinking as information processing and examine the mechanisms, structure, and assumptions of the cognitive system. The document provides examples of applying Vygotsky's theory in classrooms and socialization to enhance children's cognitive development.

1. Theories of
COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT

2. What is Cognitive Development

3. EXAMPLE
Exposing your toddler to
books and puzzles.
Answering your child’s “why”
questions.
Letting your baby explore toys
and move about.
Talking with your baby and
naming commonly used objects.
Singing and reading to your
baby.
Expanding on your child's
interests in specific learning
activities.
To enhance your child's cognitive development, it is important that you actively engage them in
quality interactions on a daily basis.

4. Who is Vygotsky?

5. Sociocultural Theory of Development

6. Piaget vs. Vygotsky: Key Differences

7. Practical Applications for
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory
In the Classroom
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8. In Socialization and Play
Practical Applications for
Vygotsky's Sociocultural
Theory

9. The Zone of Proximal
Development

11. EGOCENTRIC
SPEECH
2 PRINCIPLES OF CULTURAL
INFLUENCE IN VYGOTSKY’S
THEORY:
Allows children to talk
through what they are
doing.
Our inner voice, out thoughts
INNER SPEECH

12. Information Processing
Theories

13. Information Processing
Theories

14. Structure of the Information
Processing System

15. 4 Fundamental Assumptions
of
INFORMATION
PROCESSING THEORY
Thinking is
information
processing.
Mechanisms of
change are
important to
describe.
The cognitive
system is self-
modifying.
Careful task
analysis is crucial

16. A detailed examination of how a
child solves a problem on a
particular learning situation or in the
succeeding learning activities that
immediately follow.
Microgenetic
Analysis
Metacognition
Individual's knowledge and control
of cognitive activities.

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