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Chapter 9:
1. What is Piaget's second stage and what is involved at this stage? What did he mean by operations?
2. Explain the symbolic function substage and two important limitations.
3. Explain the intuitive thought substage and another limitation of preoperational thought, including how it is evidenced.
4. Define the zone of proximal development (ZPD) and scaffolding.
5. What did Vygotsky mean by inner speech? What does his social constructivist approach emphasize?
6. Discuss executive attention and sustained attention.
7. Describe executive function.
8. What does theory of mind refer to? What three mental states do children begin to understand?
9. What is fast mapping? What are the six key principles in young children's vocabulary development?
10. Compare child-centered kindergarten, the Montessori approach and developmentally appropriate practice (DAP).