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Assignment: Cognitive Development Activities

Prior to completing this assignment, read Chapters 7 and 8 in your textbook and read the Piaget's Enduring Contribution to Developmental Psychology, On Major Developments in Preschoolers' Imagination, and The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture: Working Paper No. 5 articles. Also, review the Week 5 Final Project instructions for creating the proposal, and review the videos: Play: A Vygotskian approach and Piaget's Stages of Development.

The purpose of this assignment is for you to continue working on elements that will become part of your Community Center Proposal Final Project. This week you will be creating three activities that address cognitive development in the age groups assigned. These will become part of the infant room, early childhood room, and adolescent room of your center.

Using Piaget's, Vygotsy's, and/or Information processing theories of cognitive development, you will continue to build your Community Center Proposal by identifying activities for the assigned rooms that promotes cognitive development for children and adolescents. The activity must be focused on the cognitive milestones of the age group and must be clearly tied to specific theory. You must use at least one credible source. Your activities might be focused on object permanence for infants, conservation, egocentrism, or conservation for early childhood, or deductive reasoning for adolescence. Table 7.1 in your textbook will be useful in completing this activity.

Focus on the primary developmental tasks of each age period. For each of the three activities, write a paragraph that addresses the following:

1. Describe the activity in some detail (provide more than just the name of the activity).

2. Identify the specific concept from cognitive development theory that supports the use of this activity.

3. Identify how the activity enhances cognitive development in the specific age group.

Here are two examples providing you a model of how to approach this assignment and how to build the elements of the rooms in your community center.

The Cognitive Development Activities paper

1. Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center's APA Style

2. Must include a separate title page with the following:

• Title of paper

• Student's name

• Course name and number

• Instructor's name

• Date submitted

3. For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013.

4. Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice resource for additional guidance.

5. Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.

6. For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions as well as Writing a Thesis Statement, refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.

7. Must use at least one credible source in addition to the course text.

• The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

8. Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center's Citing Within Your Paper

9. Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.