HDFS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Child Trends, Cognitive Flexibility, Psycholinguistics
18 Dec 2018
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In early childhood, executive functioning involves advances in cognitive inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and goal- setting. Synthesis: a resource theory of fathering, executive control functions monitor and regulate different resources. Integration of cognition, self-awareness, personal resources in contexts and interpersonal relationships to influence outcomes. Evaluating information processing approaches: what are the interrelationships of the various processes, more articulation needed, what are the underlying developmental processes. Little elaboration: mush promise and application, but comprehensive theory is needed. Facts/descriptions of features and patterns of language acquisition and development. Theories of language development explaining the how questions. Implications for other areas of development: cognitive, social, speaking differently to friends than you speak at work, code switching so the people you"re with, feel you are connecting with them. Language both reflects and directs human thinking processes: psycholinguistics study of the psychological nature of language, piaget and vygotsky were right, what are the units of language and how do they develop.
