CD-0001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Cardinality, Order Type, Childhood Amnesia
14 Jul 2015
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Introduction to child development chapters 6 + 7. Analogical problem solving: solution strategy for 1 problem apple to other problems (10-12 months) Intelligence: basic life function that allows us to adapt to our environments. Cognition: inner processes and products of the mind. Cognitive change: contributions = brain development, practice, formation of central conceptual structures. Brain development: biology imposes ceiling of cognitive development; child cannot exceed upper limit of processing speed. Operations: mental representations = logical rules (young are incapable of this) Cognitive operations: controlling attention, suppressing impulses, redirecting thought/behavior, coordinating info in working memory, planning, organizing, monitoring. Central conceptual structures: networks of concepts; permit advanced thinking. Multistore mind: input from environment thought 5 sense to brain. Intentional/goal-directed behavior: coordinating schemes deliberately to solve simple problems (8-12 months) Reconstruction: recording information while it is in the system being retrieved; condense, integrate, add info. Organization: internal rearrangement of schemas to form interconnected cognitive systems. Assimilation: using current schemas to assess the world.
