CAS PS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phonics, Mental Model, Phonemic Awareness
10 Jan 2017
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Important qualifications: long term outcomes are based on how children do spontaneously in the ask o 50% wait the whole time o 20% quit right away o 30% start out waiting and then quit. Attention: orienting o drawing attention to an element of a scene. Most primitive, fully developed in infancy: alerting o attentional arousal, predict actions. Present in infancy, but develops over time: executive function o goal directed actions and problem solving. Cool executive function, sorting task (known as the card study: sort by color, then by shape, executive function o focusing attention on car sort task requires many skills working together. Other cognitive skills: analogical reasoning o 3 year olds do well with simple analogies, what should go with the apple? o younger than 6, get distracted by perceptual similarities. What do the pictures have in common: symbolic thinking o key aspect of knowledge involves understanding symbols, that one thing can represent another.
