Name the four databases that are important in a child's developing cognition. Give a specific example from each one of what a child would have to know in order to differentiate between a spider and an insect.
What will be an ideal response?
a. Physical database - e.g., Knowledge to describe body parts and physical characteristics of each
b. Logical-Mathematical database - e.g., Knowledge to make comparisons between spider and insect (numbers of legs, differences in body parts, different ways of catching prey; habitats; classifications)
c. Representational database - e.g., Knowledge to draw a picture of a spider and insect; to write about spiders and insects or to sculpt a spider and an insect; to articulate the differences aloud to someone
d. Social conventional database -e.g., Knowledge gained from others about spiders and insects that could not be observed first-hand (multiple eyes, amount of food eaten each day)
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