PSYC 2060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Metamemory, Synaptic Pruning, Memory Span
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Slide 2: period of middle childhood is a continuing of brain development. Slide 3: synaptic pruning brain activity patterns, alpha activity engaging in something. Slide 4: preoperational focus on one aspect, idea of conservation. Between ages 3-4 kids think bigger = more. Between 5-7, it tends to be mixed, they are realizing it is more than bigger = more. After this stage, children recognize bigger doesn"t mean more. Slide 5: in middle childhood: children recognize the one-to-one conservation. There are some limitations to conservationism if more objects are present. Slide 6: children have logical ways of thinking; this is called concrete operations. Identity ability to perceive underlying reality despite superficial appearance, child realizes the change in outward appearance doesn"t change the amount. Decentration consideration of more than one attribute of an object at a time, they are decentrating aspects of the object (ex.
