Developmental Journal:
Week 6
General Instructions / Formatting Requirements:
1. Respond to only one of the below prompts
2. State the specific prompt you’re responding to at the top of your paper
3. Break up your response into multiple paragraphs
4. Indent each paragraph
5. Double space
6. Proofread for clarity, grammar and spelling mistakes.
7. Upload your document in any of the following formats: .doc, docx, .rtf, or .pdf.
Do not upload Apple Pages documents. Please ensure that you upload the
correct file and that it opens correctly before uploading. Files that cannot be
opened will not count as on-time submissions (late penalty applies).
8. Your response must be between 300-500 words for full credit (submissions
above or below this word count will receive point deductions of increasing
amounts as the term progresses)
Prompts:
Unit 6. Middle Childhood Journal Prompts
Prompt 1: Cognitive Development in Early
Childhood
● What are pre-operational symbolic regulations?
● What does symbolic development allow children to do? What are the
advances of pre-operational thinking?
● What are the limitations to preoperational thinking? What is egocentrism?
Why might egocentrism be harmful in a young child’s self-talk?
● How could lying be seen as a big milestone?
- Developmental Journal: Week 6
- General Instructions / Formatting Requirements:
- Prompt 1: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood