CHAPTER 9 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD - CHAPTER 9

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COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

REASONING ABOUT CAUSATION

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

REASONING ABOUT "LIVING" AND "NON-LIVING" THINGS

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

REASONING ABOUT "QUANTITY"

- Concepts of

* conservation
* number
* measurement

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

summing up

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

REASONING ABOUT

"CLASSES" AND "LOGICAL RELATION"

- Classification
- Seriation
- Transitive Inference

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN APPEARANCE AND REALITY

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

PRE-SCHOOLERS ATTENTION AND MEMORY ABILITIES

* Deploying attention
* Preschoolers memory
- abilities & limitations
- adult involvement in childrens memory performance

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

SOCIAL COGNITION

- ego centrism
- theory of mind
- communication & DECLINE of egocentrism
- ltd. cognitive resources and communication

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CENTRATION

- Tendency to consider only

- one piece of information

- when multiple pieces are relevant

APPEARANCE - REALITY PROBLEM

- tendency to "define reality" by surface appearances

EGO-CENTRISM

- (inability) to take the (perspective) of another person

PRE-OPERATIONAL PERIOD

Piaget's theory

- period from ages 2 to 7

- characterized by an (inability) to use .....(logical) operations

ANIMISM

- tendency to (attribute life) to (non-living) things

CONSERVATION

- the idea that the (AMOUNT)of something

- remains the (SAME)

- (despite) (CHANGES) in its

- (form, shape, or appearance)

CLASSIFICATION

ability to (GROUP) things

- by (SHARED) ..(CHARACTERISTICS )

- such as (size and shape)

SERIATION

The ability to (ARRANGE)
(Things)

- in (LOGICAL PROGRESSION)

- such as from oldest to newest

TRANSITIVE INFERENCE

- The ability to (INFER) the (RELATION)

- BETWEEN (two) objects by knowing

- their respective (RELATIONS) to a (third)

CLASS

Any (SET) of (OBJECTS)

or

(EVENTS)

TREATED as (SAME) in

(CERTAIN) WAYS

because (features)

(in common)

SENSORY REGISTER

part of (memory)

- where (incoming) information from (ONE) of

- five (senses) is (stored) very (briefly)

SHORT TERM (OR) WORKING MEMORY

part of (memory)

- where (consciously) noted information

- is (stored) for (10 to 20) seconds

LONG TERM MEMORY

part of (memory) where
(information) is (stored) for a (long time)

ATTENTION SKILLS

processes .....that (control)

the (transfer of information) from a

(sensory register) to (working memory)

MEMORY SKILLS

processes that (retain) (information)

- in (working memory) and / or

(transfer) it to (long term) memory

RECOGNITION MEMORY

ability to (percieve) a

(particular stimulus) as ...(familiar)

FREE RECALL

ability to (spontaneously) pull (information) out of (long term) memory

SOCIAL COGNITION

understanding of (social world)

THEORY OF MIND

understanding of (mind) and (mental operations)

COMPETENCE - PERFORMANCE DISTINCTION

difference (between) (WHAT) children

are (CAPABLE) of doing under (OPTIMAL) circumstances

and (HOW) they actually do on a (PARTICULAR) task

SCRIPT

an (ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION) of

- (SEQUENCE of ACTIONS)

- needed TO (accomplish) some (goal)

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