Cognition & Development Checklist

• Piaget’s theory of cognitive development: schemas, assimilation, accommodation, equilibration, stages of intellectual development. Characteristics of these stages, including object permanence, conservation, egocentrism and class inclusion.

  
• Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development, including the zone of proximal development and scaffolding.

  
• Baillargeon’s explanation of early infant abilities, including knowledge of the physical world; violation of expectation research.

  
• The development of social cognition: Selman’s levels of perspective-taking; theory of mind, including theory of mind as an explanation for autism; the Sally-Anne study. The role of the mirror neuron system in social cognition.