PSY 3105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cognitive Development, Menarche, Behaviorism
10 Oct 2018
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Ch 2 mc question secular trend in the avg age of menarche this trend is related to general health and likely began in the 19th c. David has a phd: better at inductive reasoning draw general conclusion from particular facts (opp of deductive) i. e tom, susan, and karen are profs at uottawa, they all have phds, then all profs at. Egocentrism: seeing world from own point of view, fail to divide themselves from their environment. V(cid:455)gotsk(cid:455)"s app(cid:396)oa(cid:272)h to cog(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t social interactions in development; learning from those with more skills (parents/teachers: proximal development: what one is ready to learn scaffolding: appropriate supports for learning. Speed adolescents are faster than children at processing info. Increase in speed of processing from age 10 to late teens. Automaticity how much cognitive effort the person needs to devote to processing the info: adolescents show greater automaticity of processing than pre-adolescents, depends more on experience than on age alone.
