Practise Edexcel Psychology questions on Piaget, Vygotsky and Chomsky, applying cognitive stages, scaffolding and language development to children.
Marianne conducted research into the stages of language development in children aged between 2 and 5 years old. She selected 7 participants from each of the following age groups: 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds and 5-year-olds.
Marianne visited each participant once and gathered data about the number of words the children spoke in sentences, and the level of grammatical accuracy in their sentence structure.
She compared her data across each age group to determine how language develops in children aged between 2 and 5 years old.
Suggest one reason why Marianne chose not to include children under the age of 12 months old in her research about the development of language.
AO1 (1 mark), AO2 (1 mark)
Credit one mark for accurate identification of one reason (AO1)
Credit one mark for suggestion in relation to the scenario (AO2)
For example:
- Children under 12 months old are pre-linguistic (1) so Marianne
would not be able to record the words spoken/grammatical
accuracy as children do not use words at this age (1).
Look for other reasonable marking points.
Generic answers score 0 marks.
(2)