FSW 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Inductive Transfer, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning
1 May 2019
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Concrete operations: children develop logical but not abstract thinking: third stage of piagetian cognition development. Cognitive advances: spatial relationships and causality, stage of concrete operations, experience plays a role. Improves as children age: make judgements about cause and effect. Increasing flexibility: stage 3: ages 11 or 12. Limitations: abstract reasoning, the third eye experiment, 3 year old said on the forhead, 12 year old said on the stomach, 18 year old said on the back of the head. Strategy to aid memory: external memory aids: using something outside the person, rehearsal: keeping an item in working memory through conscious repetition, organization: categorizing material to be remembered, elaboration: making mental associations involving items to be remembered. Individual intelligence test for school children, which yields verbal performance scores, and combined score. Otis-lennon school ability test (olsat8: group intelligence test that is for kindergarten through 12th grade. Linguistic intelligence: ability to use and understand words and nuances of meaning: writing, editing, translating.
