- Outline Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
- Describe the six substages of the sensorimotor stage of cognitive
development.
- Evaluate what we can learn about children in non-Western cultures
from Piaget's theories.
- Explain how infants process information and learn about their world.
- Describe the capabilities and duration of infant memory.
- Explain how we measure infant intelligence, and discuss how it
relates to adult intelligence.
- Describe the processes by which children learn to use language.
- Describe the formal characteristics that must be mastered as
linguistic competence is developed.
- Outline the development of prelinguistic and linguistic
communication.
- Explain how children influence the language that adults use to
address them.
- Explain how infant directed speech is similar and different across
cultures.
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