HDF 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Long-Term Memory, Whole Language, Railways Act 1921
29 Sep 2016
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Thought is more logical and flexible than in early childhood. The child is now sociocentric aware that other have their own perspectives on the world and that those perspectives are different from another child"s. Focusing on several aspects and relating them, not just centering on just one. Middle childhood children start collections during this time. Ability to order items associated with length or weight. Lizzie decided to arrange her rocks by size. She quickly lined up all 20 rocks in a row, selecting the smallest and then the next smallest from the pile, until the arrangement was complete. Ability to understand and to draw conclusions using cues in the environment that convey information about distance or direction. During middle childhood, children become able to discriminate objects that are nearby and far away based on their apparent size. They learn that objects that are further away will appear smaller than objects that are closer.
