PSY 256 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.1: Metacognition, Long-Term Memory, Deductive Reasoning
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The concrete operational period: 7-11 years old, egocentrism wanes with interactions with other people, acquire mental operations. Cognitive actions that can be performed on objects or ideas: limited to tangible and real objects, can not think abstractly or hypothetically. The formal operational period: 11 until adulthood, apply psychological operations to abstract entities, think hypothetically and reason abstractly, acquire deductive reasoning. Information-processing strategies for learning and remembering: working memory. Type of memory in which a small number of items can be stored brie y: long term memory. Permanent storehouse for memories that has unlimited capacity. Memory strategies: around 7-8 children begin using rehearsal. A strategy of repetitively naming information that is to be remembered: older children use organization. A strategy in which information to be remembered is structured so that related. Sunday, february 26, 2017 info is placed together: elaboration. Memory strategy in which information is embellished to makes it more memorable.
