Apply Jean Piaget’s preoperational stage theory (symbolicthought, pretend play, and egocentrism) to early childhooddevelopment. Give an example for each.

Explain why children during early childhood are unable tounderstand law of conservation.

Apply Vygotsky’s concepts of scaffolding and zone of proximaldevelopment to early childhood cognitivedevelopment.  Apply by using an example.

Explain how the impact poverty has on academic experiences andIQ.

Describe the effects of television on learning. How muchtelevision will you allow your children to watch?

Provide examples of the appearance-reality distinction.

What are scripts?  Explain.

Explain autobiographical memory (episodic memory).

Summarize the factors that influence memory.

Identify different memory strategies used by preschoolers.

Describe the process of how words are learned bypreschoolers.

Explain whole-object assumption.

Explain contrast assumption.

Describe the process of how preschoolers learn grammar.

What is overregularization?

Why questions containing “what,” “who,” and “where” appearearlier than questions of “why,” “when,” “which,” and “how”?

Explain the role of pragmatics in language development.

Describe the importance of Vygotsky’s concept of innerspeech.