CLD 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Executive Functions, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Robert Sternberg
21 Mar 2016
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Vurpillot tested this by showing children pairs of houses. Preschoolers do not scan exhausively or systemaically before answering. Execuive funcions: inhibiing reacions, restraining and delaying responses, atending selecively, seing goals, planning, organizing, maintaining an shiting set. Self-eicacy is a person"s belief in their ability to produce desired results by their own acions (bandura) Forgoing immediate reward in order to obtain a larger, more desired, or move pleasurable reward in the future. Goal-directed and deliberately implemented mental operaional used to facilitate task performance. Over ime, children : learn new strategies, the use of them becomes more eicient, increasingly rely on the most eicient strategies, strategy choices become more adapive (eg. adjust to the kind of problem) Alfred binet and theodore simon (1905: binet-simon intelligence scale. David wechsler (1955: wechsler adult intelligence scale. The ability to carry out abstract thinking (terman, 1921) The capacity o an individual to act purposefully and think raionally, and to deal efecively with the environment (wechsler, 1944)
