Why children in poverty show low cognitive ability?
Reuven Feuerstein had studied under Jean Piaget and disagreed with Piaget in one major way: he felt that between the environment stimulus and the response should be mediation. Mediation builds cognitive strategies, and those strategies give individuals the ability to plan, systematically go through data, etc.. Sometimes, there are "missing links" in the cognitive development, which leads to poor learning achievement. According to Payne (2005), missing links are:
●Mediated focusing: ability to focus attention and see objects in details. Opposite of blurred and sweeping perceptions.
●Mediated scheduling: based on routine. Ability to schedule and plan ahead. Ability to represent the future abstractly and therefore set goals.
●Mediation of positive anticipation: ability to control the present for a happy representation of the future.
●Mediation of inhibition and control: ability to defer gratification, think before acting, control impulsiveness.
●Mediation of verbal stimulation: use of precise language for defining and categorizing the environment.
●Mediated precision: ability to precisely define situations, things, people, etc., and use that precise thinking for problem-solving.
●Mediated focusing: ability to focus attention and see objects in details. Opposite of blurred and sweeping perceptions.
●Mediated scheduling: based on routine. Ability to schedule and plan ahead. Ability to represent the future abstractly and therefore set goals.
●Mediation of positive anticipation: ability to control the present for a happy representation of the future.
●Mediation of inhibition and control: ability to defer gratification, think before acting, control impulsiveness.
●Mediation of verbal stimulation: use of precise language for defining and categorizing the environment.
●Mediated precision: ability to precisely define situations, things, people, etc., and use that precise thinking for problem-solving.