Exam 2 chapter 8 Flashcards
(16 cards)
motor drive
the pleasure young children get in using their new motor skills
sleep in young children
recommended to get 12-15 hours but most get 9.5 hours
nutrition in young children
breastfeeding is different across cultures, undernourishment can lead to obesity later on, 11% of households have food insecurity
what is brain development consist of?
changes of mylenation, nueron connections, and uneveness of growth
Scale errors
child’s misuse of an object due to inability to realize what size it actually is
mental operations
part of piaget’s preoperational stage, occurs around 7,8, it is combining, separating or transforming information logically
centration
part of preoperational stage, children’s greatest limitation to learning, they focus on one aspect of an object and not any other
centration gives rise to what? (3)
egocentrism, confusion between appearance and reality and precausal reasoning
egocentrism
captive to one’s own perspective and unable to take that of another
precausal reasoning
children use their own existing views to explain cause and effect relationships
Information-processing theory
cognitive difficulties can stem from- knowledge, memory, attention control, processing speed, strategies fro acquiring and using information
what helps children encode and store memories?
elaborative style which includes wh-questions, associations, follow-ins, positive evaluations
what are the 3 priviledged domains?
physics, psychology and biology
naiive physics
untrained human perception of basic physical phenomena
naiive psychology
early understanding between mental states and behavior
theory of mind
ability to think about other people’s mental state and form theories of how they think
