PS275 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-9: Endoderm, Y Chromosome, Sexual Differentiation
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These skills are innate, very young children are able to quantify things (big small, long, short) By the age of 3-4 most children can count. Cardinality: the understanding that the last number in a sequence is representative of the number of objects being counted (achieved at 4 or 5) The complexity develops with age, new techniques are added such as decomposition strategy or fact retrieval. Early identification, usually related to procedural skills or memory retrieval. Cultural differences are evident as early as grade 1, an only increase with age. Due to different linguistics it may be easier for asian countries, because their numbers may be spoken faster, and therefor remembered more easily. The english numbers are irregular compared to others with 10 based numbers. Deferred imitation tasks: a novel action sequence is presented, waiting for replication, this is linked to the maturation of the hippocampus, prefrontal lobe and the temporal lobe. Information enters through sensory registers (each sense is separate)
