PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nocturnal Enuresis, Sleepwalking, Night Terror
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Chapter 7: bio & cognitive changes (ages 3-6) Lose baby fat, slender (hopefully), no longer babies they are through the most dangerous period. Gross motor skills increase run, jump, hop, throw, start sports at age 3-4. Fine skills lag better near 6 cut, draw, write, color. Handedness develops 90% right handed (left brain) [lefties make up about 20% of top. 7 to 8 = colds year snot-nosed kid day care vs. home. Death: car accidents (63% unrestrained) & drowning. Ghost repel: bed wetting should disappear by 5 years after that [7% of boys and 3% of girls] Cognitive piaget"s pre-operational stage: sensorimotor stage [birth to year 2, pre-operational stage [3-6 years] piaget criticized for seeing this as a deficit stage. Social speech: ask for things, how to tell a story, how to begin a conversation, adjust to listener. Private speech: piaget said due to egocentrism/vygotsky says child learning to think in head.
