PSYC 3440 Chapter Notes -Operational Definition, Phoneme, Logogram
2 Dec 2014
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Describe the basic skills that are necessary for numeracy! Discuss research on the development of numeracy ! Describe the basic skills that are needed for literacy ! Describe and evaluate theories of the development of reading ! Discuss research on the development of literacy ! !- study: mathematical abilities of brazilian children that came from poor families and sold food on the streets ! Informal role test: costumer situation, formal role test: math question ! transferring skills across situations ! Did better on informal, showing that though they know arithmetics, they have trouble. Dyscalculia: a learning disability characterized by impairments in mathematical ability that cannot be explained by a general intellectual impairment ! Could be due to limited exposure to numbers from impoverished family ! Sigler and shippley, used a computational model to demonstrate that the speed and accuracy of retrieval of an answer depend on this.
