Cognition and Development

Prep work to complete

Prep 1 - Piaget's theory of cog dev

Prep 1 - Piaget's theory of cog dev WORD version

Prep 2 - Piaget's Stages of intellectual development

Prep 3 - Vygotsky's theory of cog dev

Prep 4 - Baillargeon's explanation of early infant abilities

Prep 5 - Selman's level of perspective taking

Prep 6 - Social Cognition - Theory of Mind

prep 7  - Social cognition - The mirror neuron System

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very useful links to clips

You may have found that some of the topics or studies in the unit are a little abstract. One thing you can do is to watch clips that demonstrate examples of the research. Here are some clips - but you can easily find more by searching on youtube. 


Violation of expectation clips

• Physical Reasoning   VOE Support events Baillargeon - Baillargeon
  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwgo2O5Vk_g  Baillargeon explaining VoE and more examples. 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7OIDm_btM - Baillargeon
• https://www.massolit.io/courses/cognitive-development-beyond-piaget/classic-study-baillargeon-s-drawbridge-study
  

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Mirror Neurons

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq1-ZxV9Dc4 great summary of mirror neurons. ​
  
• Fascinating explanation of how mirror neurons aided evolution. Also Difference between perception and touch mirror neurons. https://ed.ted.com/lessons/vs-ramachandran-the-neurons-that-shaped-civilization#watch