PSY 2114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Occipital Lobe, Cognitive Development, Conduct Disorder
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Can use mental operations - cognitive actions that can be performed on objects or ideas. Understand that events can be seen in difference perspectives. Things can be reversed (ex. pouring in centration tasks - can realize that after pouring water into one glass you can pour it back into the original glass) Thinking is limited to the concrete, the tangible, here and now. Have trouble with abstract thinking and deductive reasoning. Different heights at which it is dropped. The kids can"t gure our the factors. Hypothetical-deductive reasoning: process by which thinker can systematically test possible solutions to a problem, arrives at answer and can defend and explain (formal operations: missing in middle childhood. Important skills for school: patience, paying attention, sociability, ability to sit still, motivation, organization, etc. Organizing: structuring information so that related information is grouped together. Elaboration: embellishing information to be remembered to make it more memorable: ex.
