PSY 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Metacognition, Phonological Awareness, Spatial Memory
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Chapter 6: physical and cognitive development in early and middle. Piaget"s concrete operational stage: from 7 years to adolescence, conversation develops. Class inclusion: seriation, transitive inference, spatial reasoning. Limitations of the concrete operational stages: concrete applications, abstract applications, in exible. Information processing theory: attention: improvements, memory. Ipt: the knowledge base: role of experience and previous knowledge, chess pieces study. Ipt: memory in early childhood: recognition. Highly developed in 4/5 years olds: recall. Haven"t developed memory strategies: rehearsal, organization, elaboration. Strong predictor of academic success in adolescence. Ipt: theory of mind: understanding of others perspectives and beliefs, false-belief tasks. Applications of ipt: reading: reading involved many processes. Brain tries to break them down/ free up space: whole-language approach. Applications of ipt: math: similar to reading argument, number sense . Concepts and understanding: memorization of skills. Early childhood literacy: role of experience, symbolic relationship, phonological awareness. Language development: vocabulary: about 5 words/days. 10,000 by age 6: learn less abstract words rst.
