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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

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