Learning Objectives
- Know what happens during Piaget’s preoperational stage of cognitive development.
- Understand the basic processes described by Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory.
- Understand how attention and memory develop in early childhood.
- Understand why play is important for cognitive development in early childhood.
- Be familiar with how language develops in early childhood.
- Understand how children develop preacademic skills in reading, writing and arithmetic.
- Be familiar with the risk factors and supports for cognitive and language development in early childhood.