PSYC20008 Study Guide - Final Guide: Peer Pressure, Egocentrism, Deductive Reasoning

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC20008
• Professor: Katheirne Johnson

Document Summary

Developmental psychology cognitive abilities in early and middle childhood (2- Growth and change motor development: gross motor skills become smoother and more coordinated. Boys usually outperform girls on gross motor skills. Improvement of fine motor skills during middle childhood. Girls usually outperform boys on fine motor skills. Categorization of objects beyond infancy: ability to categorize expands greatly, two of the most important trends: increasing understanding of category hierarchies and causal connections, both involve knowledge of relations among categories. Category hierarchies: three main levels general one (superordinate level), very specific one (subordinate level), one in between (basic level) Children usually learn basic level category first, because objects at this level share many common characteristics (unlike superordinate level categories), and because category members are relatively easy to discriminate (unlike those in subordinate level categories) Children sometimes form child-basic categories whose generality is somewhere (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:271)asi(cid:272) a(cid:374)d su(cid:271)ordi(cid:374)ate le(cid:448)el (cid:272)ategories (cid:894)(cid:862)thi(cid:374)gs that roll(cid:863) i(cid:374)stead of (cid:862)(cid:271)alls(cid:863)(cid:895)