01:830:271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Synaptic Pruning, Prefrontal Cortex, Lev Vygotsky

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:271
• Professor: L.Dickson

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Rather they pay attention to stuff that is salience. When you add the age of boxer and shadow, you get the number 7. How old is shadow: focuses on the size and color of dogs rather than the relevant information about age, planfulness. Inhibition: failure at inhibiting the incorrect response used to doing a certain task that leads to the wrong response. I have to finish a task and then get the cookie difficult to not get the cookie first. Not done developing into late childhood to late adolescents (myelin sheets, synaptic pruning) It is close to adult size at 6 years but not at complete adult functioning. Vygotsky: different from piaget, piaget neglected the social influences of cognitive learning, context, always thinking about what the child can and cannot do write name, tie shoes, etc. Think about the child in their actual context: cannot think a(cid:271)out (cid:862)(cid:449)hat a hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:272)hild (cid:272)a(cid:374) do at __ age(cid:863)