Human Development: Cognitive Development

The two pdf files are the reading for your paper on early childhood cognitive development.

Write a 3 page paper discussing the differences between Piaget and Vygotsky, how they would use Cole et al's., ideas about culture and what these theories might look like in an early childhood classroom?

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"Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species," says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.

Alison Gopnik takes us into the fascinating minds of babies and children, and shows us how much we understand before we even realize we do

https://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think