CAS PS 241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Language Disorder, Susan Carey, Cognitive Development
10 Jan 2017
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Cognitive maps mentally represent spatial layout of environment to infer distance, direction, and ways of navigating. An organism can use many kinds of info. Seem to know that counting involves using just one label per object. By 3. 5 years, children can tell when others violate the one to one correspondence principle. A 3 year old might correctly count a group of seven objects aloud, but still not realize that this means that there are seven objects present. Final pattern concerns distinction between knowing how to do something and being able to succeed at it consistently at all levels of complexity, three levels of competency. Knowing how to perform behaviors that fit with particular principles (procedural competence) Children use a theory for explaining the social world called na ve psychology and physical world is na ve physical mechanics. Young children can interpret and explain things in terms of psychological terms or in terms of simple physical interactions between objects.
