PSYC 1005 Lecture 5: Chapter 10 9/19 & 9/21
24 Sep 2016
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Cognitive psychology: the study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, decision making, problem solving, creativity, and memory. Cognitive development: how children acquire the ability to learn, think, reason, communicate, and remember. Numerous explanations of how we acquire the ability to learn, think, communicate, and remember over time. Stagelike: sudden spurts of cognitive development and gains in knowledge are followed by periods of relavtive stability. Example: language development occurse very quickly from years 1-5, but then slows down. Continuous: gradual, incremental changes in knowledge and cognitive growth. Example: our vocabulary grows slowly throughout the life span. Domain-general: changes in children"s cognitive skills in most or all areas occur simultaneously - all skills grow together. Domain-specific: cognitive skills (like reasoning, language, and counting) develop at different rates - different skills develop on different trajectories. Swiss psychologist who presented first complete account of cognitive development. Attempted to identify stages children pass through towards adult-like thinking.
