Psychology 3442F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Spatial Cognition, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia
7 Nov 2017
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Typical & atypical development of numerical & mathematical skills. Low numeracy associated w unemployment, physical illness, depression & incarceration. Improvements in mathematical competence are related to economic growth. Low numeracy costs uk gov 2. 4 billion per year. What predicts later reading? early reading & early math equally effective at predictions. Spending more time on numeracy early may have bene ts later not only for math but for reading as well. Scaffolding; laying foundations need to understand what makes up those foundations. Analogy: phonological awareness awareness that language decomposes into units of sounds. Children w good foundational skills have a steady growth of reading achievement. We are born w a sense of non-symbolic quantity that we share w other species. Infants have a sense of quality 60 dots randomly distribution & size differs randomly. If infants look at new slide of 8 dots longer than the 16 dot then do realize.
