PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Stereotype Threat, Convergent Thinking, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
16 Oct 2011
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Chapter 12 cognitive development in middle childhood. Achievements of the concrete operational stage: concrete operational stage, piaget"s third stage 7-11 yrs old, thought becomes flexible, logical, and organized in its application to concrete info. Classification: children pass the class inclusion problem(flower example, more aware of classification hierarchies and can focus on relations between a general category and two specific categories at the same time, collections therefore become common. Spatial reasoning: directions, mental rotations, can identify left and right positions they do not occupy, maps, cognitive maps. Mental representations of familiar, large-scale spaces, such as school or neighborhood. Preschoolers include landmarks, but there are not always accurate; also have difficulty if map is rotated: school-age kids draw an organized route of travel, grasp the notion of scales, cultural frameworks influence children"s map making. Indian children represented a rich array of landmarks and aspects of social life. Americans drew a more formal, extended space, but with few landmarks.
