CLD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Operant Conditioning, Child Care, Research

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 101
• Professor: Julia Forgie

Document Summary

Information processing and the development of piagetian: focuses on, perception, learning, memory, problem solving, aims to, discover how children process information from the time they encounter it until they use it. Habituation: type of learning in which familiarity with a stimulus reduces attention to it, dishabituation, increase in responsiveness after presentation of a new stimulus, attention returns. Visual processing abilities: visual preference, tendency of infants to spend more time looking at one sight than another, eg. Information processing as a predictor of intelligence: weak correlation between infants" scores on developmental tasks with the exception of scores for, habituation, attention-recovery, visual recognition memory abilities. Working memory: examines the hardware of the central nervous system. Implicit memory: unconscious recall, generally of habits and skills, sometimes called procedural memory, explicit memory, intentional and conscious memory, generally of facts, names, and events, sometimes called declarative memory, consciously trying to remember. Cooking: cultural differences in guided participation, vygotsky.