PSYB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Prefrontal Cortex, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning
18 Dec 2016
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Chapter 12 cognitive development in middle childhood: piegetian approach: the concrete operational child. At about age 7, according to piaget, children enter the stage of concrete operations. Begin to use mental operations to solve real-world problems. Now can think logically because they can look @ multiple aspects of a situation. Thinking still limited to here and now. Better understanding of spatial concepts, categorization, causality, inductive and deductive thinking, and numbers: spatial relationships. Are better understood and tied to increasing sophistication with symbolic thinking. Can remember how to get somewhere, routes and landmarks, and distance. For example: driving to grandma"s house: categorization. Seriation: can arrange objects in a series according to one or more dimensions. By 7 or 8, children can arrange sticks according to size. Transitive inference: infer a relationship between 2 objects from the relationship between the 2 of them and 3rd object. For example, yellow stick is bigger than blue stick.
