EED 305 Final: EED 305
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Case accepts _____ stages but attributes change within each stage, and movement from one stage to the next, to increase in the efficiency with which children use their limited working-memory capacity. Each stage involves district type of cognitive structure. -early childhood; internal representations of events and actions. Factors that contribute to cognitive change: brain development, practice with schemes and automization, and formation of central conceptual structure central conceptual structures. Case; networks of concepts and relations that permit them to think about a wide range of situations in more advanced ways. One of the schemes of a stage become automatic and brain development further increments processing speech, enough space in working memory is available to consolidate schemes into an improved representational form continuum of acquisition. Case; many understandings appear in specific situations at different times rather than being mastered all at once model of strategy choice. Siegler; uses an evolutionary metaphor (natural selection) to help us understand cognitive change.