FREN 1001 Chapter : Ch.2 Lesson 2
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Under age 5: 1 out of 3 children in the world die. Causes: diarrhea and resulting dehydration treat with oral rehydration therapy low cost, measles, tetanus, whooping cough can immunize, acute respiratory infections (pneumonia) life threatening, often parents don"t recognize danger/seek help, use antibiotics. Piaget"s preoperational stage, and a brief introduction to information processing theory. An alternative to piagetism theory is: information processing theory: it tries to understand how humans think by comparing human thinking to computers, focuses on memory. What is memory: to remember, one must: Adults don"t remember events prior to age 3 or 4: adult retrieval schemas don"t match what infants encoded, many of piaget"s qualitative cognitive developments are really. Quantitative gains in memory: sensorimotor 0-2, preoperational 2-6, sense of concrete operations 7-11, stage of formal operations 12+ Preschooler"s reasoning is transductive: from a specific instance to another specific instance, preoperational preschoolers tend to draw spurious cause & effect.
