Kinesiology 3347A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Malcolm Gladwell, Phonological Awareness, Numeracy
5 Mar 2020
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Changes in language: children enter early childhood producing only a limited number of words and leave it as an accomplished, fluent speaker of at least 1 language. Fast-mapping: vocabulary grows rapidly, age 1 - dozen words, age 2 1/2 - 600 words, age 5-6 - 15,000 words. Fast-mapping - ability to categorically link new words to real-world referents: child rapidly forms a hypothesis about a new word"s meaning, then uses the word often, getting feedback to help them judge the accuracy of their hypothesis. The grammar explosion: when children"s speech begins to sound like adult"s. Invented spelling - a strategy young children with good phonological awareness skills use when they write. Differences in intelligence: beginning in early childhood, psychologists can construct intelligence tests that are correlated with later test scores and important variables such as school performance. First modern intelligence test published in 1905 by alfred binet and theodore simon.
