PSYC 2010U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Synaptic Pruning, Feta, Prefrontal Cortex

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*** physical and motor development through childhood not on exam. Week 11 lecture 8 middle childhood: cognitive development & schooling. Middle childhood: what are some characteristics of the thinking of preschool children, between ages 5 to 7 years. See a shift in the way children think. Can take an aspect of a situation and can hold it in their brain. Neural networks strengthen: brain activity patterns. A shift towards more alpha activity way from feta (sleep) activity: synchronization. Electrical activities of different areas in the brain synchronize. Piaget"s conservation tasks: conservation of quantity, conservation of number, by 7 8 years of age they start to understand this. Coordinated mental actions that fit into a logical system: examples of concrete operations: Ability to perceive underlying reality despite superficial appearance: decentration: Consideration of more than one attribute of an object at a time. Changes in one aspect of a problem are compared with and compensated for by changes in another aspect: reversibility:

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