1. Define cognition and describe Piaget's general ideas concerning stages of cognitive development, including schemes, assimilation, and accommodation.
   
   
2. Describe Piaget's sensorimotor stage of cognitive development and identify major features of this stage, including means-end behavior, circular reaction, and object permanence.
   
   
3. Summarize the features of Piaget's stage of preoperational thought and the limitations found during this stage.
   
   
4. Describe the major developments in Piaget's concrete and formal operational stages of cognitive development.
   
   
5. Discuss the implications of Piaget's theory of cognitive growth for the education of children.
   
   
6. Describe the evidence suggesting that Piaget may have underestimated the abilities of young children.
   
   
7. Discuss the modern criticisms of Piaget's notion of stagelike development of thought and his proposed mechanisms of cognitive development, including a consideration of adequate experimental control.
   
   
8. Discuss the importance of concept development and describe the development of knowledge about the properties of objects.
   
   
9. Describe the development of categorization and classification skills.
   
   
10. Describe the development of number concepts.
    
    
11. Describe the development of the concepts of spatial relationships.
    
    
12. Discuss the development of the individual's ability to take the perspective of the other.
    
    
13. Discuss the importance of a theory of mind for normal, deaf, and autistic children.
    
    
14. List and discuss the current neo Piagetian approaches to cognitive development.
    
    
15. Describe Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of cognitive development, including the concepts of scaffolding and zone of proximal development and the importance of skilled collaboration.
    
    
16. Identify the major components of reciprocal teaching.