PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Procedural Knowledge, Self-Care, Motor Planning
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Key changes: sensation and perception, attention. Attention becomes increasingly purposeful: working memory. The physical capacity of working memory may increase somewhat: long-term memory. The amount of knowledge stored in long-term memory increases. Children"s knowledge about the world becomes increasingly integrated. Children"s growing knowledge base facilitates more effective learning. Attention: attention is essential to learning, moves info from sensory register into working memory, 3 neural networks that help with attention (as they develop) Orienting system: helps infant direct attention to something int heir environment that is interesting or important. Arousal system: helps infant direct their energy towards stimuli. Responsible for higher order cognitive functions: planning, keeping goals in mind, etc, allows them to inhibit responses (i. e. ignore distracting stimuli) Age-related changes in attention: distractibility decreases, sustained attention increases, selective attention improves, attention becomes increasingly purposeful, attention develops in the context of social relationships. Awareness of the other person who"s present. Building some shared understandings with the other person.
