Quiz 4 Flashcards

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cognition

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using perception to make inferences about the core nature of stimuli

Understand:
- Objects, quantities → knowledge
- Form categories

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core knowledge

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theory that infants are born with some understanding in several areas
- Upon these, new skills are built

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3 aspects of core knowledge

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1) Object representation
2) Number and quantities
3) People and their actions

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object representation

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nature of the objects; how they should exist, move interact, look

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object constancy

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object does not change in size or shape depending how one views it

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object cohesion and continuity

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objects are seen as wholes with distinct boundaries
Infants shown an image of a rectangle occluding a bar

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2.5-month-old infants are surprised at:

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  • If an object is moved without anyone moving it
  • Object remains still when something pushes it
  • object cohesion and continuity
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6.5-month-olds know that…

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objects cannot remain still in “mid-air”

  • object cohesion and continuity
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horizontal decalage

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in which an ability develops at different rates in different context

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object permanence

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object still exists even if it is hidden

  • At 4 months, infants attempt to retrieve an object if it is hidden, but only if the object is partially visible
  • At 6 months, infants will search for a hidden object only if they are moving in the direction of the object
  • At 8 months, infants retrieve a hidden object successfully but, cannot if the object was hidden in one location and later moved to another (A not B Task)
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numerosity

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ability to quickly determine the number of items in the set without counting

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cardinality

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basic understanding of “less than” or “more than”

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Can infants tell the difference between two arrays that differ in the number of objects they contain? (Crackers study)

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  • 10-12-month-olds saw different numbers of crackers put in two boxes
  • They could crawl to whichever box they pleased
  • Consistently crawl to the one having more
  • Can do 1 vs. 2
  • Can do 2 vs. 3
  • Do not discriminate above that (no 3 vs. 4 or 2 vs.4)
  • The pattern is similar to the rhesus monkey
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Wynn (1992) –> mouse experiment

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  • Violation of Expectation Method
  • Showed 5-month-olds sequences of events of a mouse being shown then a screen closing so that they cannot see the mouse and adding a second mouse then removing the screen to show either 1 or 2 mice
  • Possible (1 + 1 = 2)
  • Impossible (1 + 1 = 1)
  • Infants looked longer at the impossible
  • 3-day-old chickens show a similar pattern
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infants can discriminate cardinality in:

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  • preferential-looking at a visual scene
  • auditory sequences
  • sequences of events
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core knowledge criticisms

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Violation of Expectation Method use
- A lot of studies rely on this method
- Not everyone believes that systematic changes in looking time reflect underlying cognitive abilities

Necessity
- There is no need to postulate innate knowledge of physical laws
- Infants are born with perceptual abilities and acquire knowledge of objects through experience

Memory
- The looking preference patterns (e.g., longer looking at impossible events) can be the result of the need for more processing time for memory encoding

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Woodward & Gerson (2014)

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Action production and goal analysis of action links
- Neonatal imitation
- Anticipation of endpoints of action trajectories
- Infants’ motor system is active during observations of actions of others

Infants analyze actions in terms of intentional relations:

Visual habituation studies
- 3-month-olds look longer at actions that disrupt the goal rather than go along
Grasping a ball
- 9-month-olds show this pattern for more complex, indirect actions
Using a tool to get the object

Experimental
- 11-month-olds show analysis of actor’s goal to create visual predictions about their future behavior

Neuro
- 9-month-olds show different activation when viewing goal-directed actions vs. movements

Why infants analyze actions of others
- Social cognition
- Social information processing
Create timely, appropriate response to social partners
- Theory of Mind development
Performance on action analysis tasks in infancy predicts performance in understanding of psychological processes of others at 4 years of age

Infants’ actions are goal-directed
- Aiming the reach in anticipation of moving object position of contact
- Preshape their hands in anticipation of object’s size and orientation
- Speech of reach depends on whether they want to throw or put an object into the box

Infants’ actions and actions of others
- If infants receive training on a goal-directed action, they are more likely to interpret others’ actions with the same object as goal-directed
E.g., use velcro mittens as a tool to grab objects
E.g., to use the cane as a tool
- Active training is more likely to have an effect than observational learning alone
Motor processes’ role in action understanding

Mirror neurons
- Cells in the motor cortex that fire when performing and observing an action explored in monkeys and adults
- Yet to explore this system in infancy
- EEG rhythms are similar when adults watch and perform an action
Similar for infants
The magnitude of the pattern is influences by motor development
- Sensitive to goal-directedness vs. simple movements

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social cognition

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thinking about one’s own thoughts, feelings, motives, and behaviors, as well as those of other people
- Deals with how thought processes (cognition) work in a social context

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Social Cognition

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thinking about one’s own thoughts, feelings, motives, and behaviors, as well as those of other people
- Deals with how thought processes (cognition) work in a social context

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basic social-cognitive abilities

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  • View self and others as intentional agents; with goal-oriented behavior
  • Understand intentions; consider others’ perspectives
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Intentional understanding can be seen early on → Carpenter et al. (1998)

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  • 14-18-month-olds
  • Shown intention and accidental behavior sequences
  • When given a chance to imitate, 14-month-olds prefer to imitate intentional behaviors (~2x as much)
  • Infants differentiate intentional vs. accidental actions
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early orientation to social others

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  • Newborns prefer listening to the language of their caregivers vs. foreign
    Heard in the utero
  • Newborns orient to the human face and learn to seek caregivers’ faces
  • Prepared (by prenatal experience) to attend to caregivers and others
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social learning

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acquiring information from others
- direct teaching
- observational learning

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social brain hypothesis
humans evolved the ability to better learn from others - Enhanced skills at both competing and cooperating - The rapid acquisition/transmission of material culture
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bandura's social cognitive theory
vicarious (indirect) learning through observation, explicit reinforcement not necessary (e.g., conditioning) to learn about the social world - bobo doll experiment
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Bandura’s Theory: Cognitive Factors Contributing to Social Learning
- symbolization - forethought - self-regulation - self-reflection - vicarious learning
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symbolization
ability to think about social behavior in words and images
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forethought
anticipate consequences of our and others’ actions
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self-regulation
ability to adopt standards of behavior
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self-reflection
analyze thoughts and actions
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vicarious learning
ability to learn new behavior by observing others
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Bandura’s Theory: Subprocesses of Observational Learning
- attentional processes - retention processes - production processes - motivational processes
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attentional processes
have to watch the behavior
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retention processes
have to remember the behavior
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reduction processes
have to have the motor/cognitive skills to repeat the behavior
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motivational processes
have to want to perform the behavior
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forms of social learning (in order of simple to more complex)
- Local enhancement - Mimicry - Emulation - Imitation - Teaching (instructed learning)
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local enhancement
- Notice activity at a certain location - Move to that location - Discover a useful similar behavior through trial-and-error - Monkeys and nut-cracking Notice other cracking nuts at a location with many stones Learns to crack nuts
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mimicry
duplication of behavior without understanding the goal Example: - A 2-year-old child steps on a scale, looks at the scale face, and steps off, just like Dad does - Same behavior, but the goal is not understood
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emulation
understanding the goal and engaging in similar behavior to achieve that goal - Without necessarily reproducing the exact actions of the model Example: - Simon sees June sifting sand to find seashells - Simon starts throwing handfuls of sand out - This would separate sand and seashells - Achieving the same goal - No reproduction of the behavior
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imitation
the same actions are used to achieve the same goal Example: - A child watches an adult open a latch and push a button to open a box to get a piece of candy - The child understands the adult’s goal and repeats the same actions with the same results Requires: - Taking the perspective of the model - Understand the goal - Reproduce actions - Understand the causal relationship between behavior and the goal
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teaching (instructed learning)
learn the adult’s understanding of the task, compare it to yours, reproduce the behavior in the appropriate context, understand the purpose, and internalize the instruction, not just repeat the behavior Example: - Basketball - Putting a ball in a basket in certain situations is a goal in the game - Monkeys can toss the ball by learning by instruction - But it is not the same as knowing to do so in certain situations → instructed learning Requires: - Complex perspective-taking - Joint attention - Theory of Mind
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age differences in social learning: 2-year-olds
Tend to emulate - Goal emulation - Different actions - As early as 14 months Use head to press button
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age differences in social learning: 3-5-year-olds
- Tend to imitate - Same action and goal Imitation increases and emulation decreases as children enter the preschool years
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Gergely et al. (2002) --> context differences in social learning
A model shows an action of pressing a button with their head If model has hands free: - Infants press with head - Show imitation If model has hands occupied: - Infants press with hands - Show emulation
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overimitation
At ~3 years, children imitate both relevant and irrelevant actions Example: - Shown how to reach a toy using a rake with some irrelevant actions (e.g., tapping) - 2-year-olds copied all actions - Chimpanzees: only copied actions relevant to the goal - Social implications
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overimitation less likely when
- Know the task beforehand - Model provides unreliable information - Different context when observing vs. performing the task - Model speaks a different language - Age: older children
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overimitation possible explanation
- we overimitate to maintain social ties - 4-6-year-olds more likely to imitate a human vs. a robot - 2-year-olds more likely to imitate a live socially responsive human vs. a video And more likely to imitate an interactive live video vs. a non-responsive recording
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overimitation benefits
- Can allow us to avoid the pitfalls of individual learning - Can help learn an array of skills quickly - Heuristic for learning about cultural artifacts and their uses - Natural Pedagogy
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natural pedagogy
a human adaptation permitting fast and accurate transmission of information between individuals
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social neuroscience
explores neurological basis for social learning and cognitions
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mirror neurons
- Fire when performing or watching someone perform an action - May play a role in observational learning - See an action → motor-related neurons fire → neurological system underlying social learning - “Able to recognize when another is doing something that the self can do”
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mirror neurons in humans
- Fire when we see another person expressing an emotion Disgust Pain - Fire when goal-directed and meaningless actions are observed Monkeys only for goal - More sensitive? E.g., finger movements Codes for movement Important for imitation
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Buccino et al. (2004) --> mirror neurons and imitation
- Explored mirror neurons in imitation - Participants watched an expert playing guitar chords Results: - Mirror neurons are active when watching - More active when tried to imitate chords
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mirror neurons and children
- EEG in 3-year-olds --> Fire when watching and performing hand movements - fMRI in 10-14-year-olds --> Fire to emotional expressions - Newborns --> Not much evidence; EEG in 9-month-olds when reaching for objects and watching
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Ramachandran & Oberman (2006) --> mirror neurons are the neural basis for...
Mirror neurons are the neural basis for: - Identifying with others - Empathy - Perspective-taking - Imitation - Understanding intentions Theory of Mind abilities among the ASD population could be associated with deficits in the mirror neuron system
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self-concept
the way one defines themselves - Cognitive development - Goal-directed behavior - Social and emotional development - Makes humans unique - Awareness of one’s thoughts --> Ability to reflect - Sense of self --> Ability to distinguish self from others - Self-motivated actions --> Ability to identify actions as intentionally motivated - Evaluate self and others’ actions --> Becomes self-aware and other-aware
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looking-glass self
our self-concept is a reflection of how others see us - We base our judgments of ourselves based on how others respond to us
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Piaget's proposal of development of self-concept
- Gradually recognize themselves as different from objects around - Fully developed by 18-24 months
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Rochat & Striano (2002) --> testing development of self-concept
- Show infants Video of themselves vs. videos of other infants - Measure looking times - 3-month-old infants show discrimination - Suggests a primitive form of self-recognition in infancy
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I-Self
implicit, ~15-18 months; no self-awareness, distinction between self and others - I can cause things to happen
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Me-Self
explicit, ~18-24 months; conscious awareness - Idea of me
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How can we tell if infants developed a me-self?
Visual self-recognition test - Placing a mark on the infant’s forehead - Observe their reaction when seeing their image in the mirror - 15-month-olds touch the mark Vs. touch the mirror - Shows first signs of self-recognition - Not all show so early, but by 18 months, 75% show
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importance of self-concept
- Influence social, emotional, and cognitive development - Acquisition of social knowledge and competence - Peer relations - Gender identity - Empathy
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other markers of self-concept development
- Toddlers use first-person pronouns: I, me, my, mine Linguistic distinction between self and others Late in 2nd or early 3rd year - Inner speech - Mirror self-recognition - Pretend play - Neuroscience: the degree of self-representation in 15-30-month-olds relates to maturation of a portion of the left hemisphere
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theory
a coherent framework for organizing facts
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Casey et al. (2011)
- Delay of gratification task at 4-years-old - Follow-up tests of impulse control at 20-years-old Impulse control task at 40-years-old - Experiment 1: go/nogo task “Adult” reward → social (e.g., happy face) - Experiment 2: fMRI Go/nogo task - See happy face → press button - See fearful face → withhold pressing button Results - Experiment 1: those who had more difficulty delaying gratification at 4 had more difficulty suppressing the response at 40 - Experiment 2 (fMRI): Low delayers → low activity in the prefrontal cortex Involved in inhibition Low delayers → high activity in the ventral striatum Involved in reward processing Implications - Experiment 1: Resistance to temptation is a stable characteristic Predictive validity of delay of gratification - Experiment 2: Resisting temptation supported by ventral frontostriatal circuitry Activity is different in low delayers - Connect to Tang et al.
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belief-desire reasoning
we predict what others do based on what we understand their beliefs and desires to be
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basic skills needed for Theory of Mind
- Treating others as intentional agents - Taking perspective of another
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others skills for Theory of Mind
- Shared attention - Referential communication - Imitating intended vs. accidental actions - Helping (e.g., meeting the goal of other)
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false-belief task
a common way to measure Theory of Mind - The toy is hidden in one location while Sally and Ann are present - Sally leaves - Ann changes the location of the toy - Question: When Sally is back, where would she look? - Correct answer: in the original location - 3-year-olds → fail - 4-year-olds → pass - Similar patterns across the globe
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other false-belief tasks
Unexpected contents (also known as Smarties Task) - Show children a box of Smarties (a type of candy with a distinctive box children are familiar with) - Ask: “What do you think is in the box?”; answer: smarties, candy - Show that it actually contains pens - Ask: What did you think was in the box before? Memory - What would Jim think is in the box? False belief - The correct answer is Smarties, but 3-year-olds say pens
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why 3-year-olds fail the false-belief task
Forget initial belief - However, 3-year-olds have little difficulty remembering past images, perceptions, and pretenses - But have difficulty remembering past beliefs, specifically Lack conceptual structure - Not enough to navigate beliefs - Have representational deficit - Theory of mind deficit Dealing with two representations of a single object at once - Get contradictory evidence - Dual-encoding hypothesis and scale models - Support for dual representation → Gopnik & Astingto (1988) Across similar tasks requiring dual representations, children fail/pass at a similar rate Suggesting that a single, domain-general mechanism underlies representational abilities Lack of executive function - Basic cognitive abilities (e.g., planning) - Flynn et al. (2004) 3-year-olds did a series of false-belief and executive function tasks - Once every 4 weeks 6 times - Results: most children performed well on executive function before the performed well on false-belief Lack of inhibition - It is difficult for younger children to withhold certain responses - Mean Monkey 3-4-year-olds Monkey puppet asks what stickers they liked, then took them away 4-year-olds quickly understood that you need to say the opposite 3-year-olds kept telling the truth
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factors in Theory of Mind
- Quality of attachment - Parenting styles - Caregiver-child communication - Language skills - Caregiver warmth - Use of mental state talk Talking about what they and their children are thinking - Family size Children from larger families perform better on false-belief tasks
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family size and Theory of Mind
Siblings influence explanation - Interactions with siblings facilitate more complex reasoning - Some studies find that only having older siblings has this effect - Ability to pretend to play with Competition explanation - Since older siblings can be bigger/stronger, there is a need to develop latent to win the social competition
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Theory of Mind in infancy
Repacholi & Gopnik (1997) - 14- and 18-month-olds - Tested for food preferences between crackers and raw vegetables - They then watched as the experimenter tasted both foods and expressed likeness (“mmm” or disgust (“ew”) - The experimenter then asked, “Can you give me some?” - 14-month-olds gave the food they liked As if the experimenter preference is the same as their own - 18-month-olds gave the food experimenter liked Their likes can be different from other person
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implicit vs. explicit false-belief tasks
- Most false-belief tasks are explicit Require a verbal response - Using implicit tasks can reveal that infants might know more than they can verbalize - Measuring looking - Clements & Perner (1994) Younger children look at the correct response The initial location of the object The implicit Theory of Mind in infants - Infants have some implicit understanding of others’ minds before they can act (explicitly) on that knowledge - This experiment received a lot of replications With some showing effects as young as 7 months old - And some failed to replicate, too Suggesting the effect is elusive
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neuroscience and Theory of Mind
- Show evidence for Theory of Mind continuous development Richardson et al. (2018) - Networks associated with Theory of MInd in adults are in place as early as 3 years old - Bilateral temporoparietal junction - Age difference in ease of activation 3 and 7 years old Correspond to behavioral data of solving false-belief tasks
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animals and Theory of Mind
Like 3-year-olds, chimpanzees cannot solve explicit false-belief tasks But they can solve implicit false-belief tasks Chimpanzees can tell the difference between accidentally dropping food vs. withholding on purpose
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intelligence
thinking and acting in ways that are goal-directed and adaptive
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high intelligence scores correlate with
- School performance - Learning technology skills - Social adjustment
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psychometric approach to intelligence
- Intelligence can be described in terms of mental factors - Tests can be constructed to assess these factors - Factors are related mental skills that (presumably) affect thinking in a wide range of situations - Factor analysis
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factor analysis
Verbal factor Subskills correlate: - Vocabulary - Reading comprehension - Story completion - Verbal analogies Spatial factor Subskills correlate: - 3D rotation - Maze learning - Form-board performance
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theories of intelligence
- Guilford (1988) → 180 unique intellectual factors - Spearman’s g (1927) → general and specific intelligence (2 factors) - Cattell (1971) → fluid and crystallized intelligence (2 factors) Fluid → biologically determined E.g., memory span Crystallized → cultural context and experience determined E.g., verbal comprehension - Jensen (1998) - Positive Manifold High correlations between various types of intelligence measures evidence for g Correlations (verbal and nonverbal) gets stronger with age
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Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon --> IQ
- In 1904 in France - Purpose: assess school-related abilities - Children who benefit from standard vs. special education - Mental Age (MA) vs. Chronological Age (CA) - MA → if the number of items the child passes is the average - Number a 12-year-old does, then MA is 12 - MA > CA = “bright”; MA < CA = “dull”
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modern IQ tests
- Many IQ tests exist today - Do not rely on MA vs. CA Standford-Binet - In 1916, Lewis Terman - General reasoning, fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative processing, visual/spatial processing, working memory, and more specific tasks Wechsler Scales - In 1940, David Wechsler - WPPSI → for preschoolers - WISC → for children - WAIS → for adults - Children’s IQ test scores are compared vs. the average scores of children their own age
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can we measure IQ in infants?
Developmental Quotient (DQ) Tests - Bayley Scales of Infant Development - Gesell Developmental Schedules - Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale - Based on sensory and motor abilities (some cognitive) - Standardized, reliable
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example of items in DQ tests (Bayley Scales)
- 1-3 months: responds to sound of a bell; vocalizes once or twice; displays social smile - 5-7 months: smiles at mirror image; turns head after fallen spoon; vocalizes four different syllables - 9-12 months: responds to verbal requests; stirs with spoon in imitation; attempts to scribble - 14-17 months: says two words; shows shoes or other clothing; builds a tower of three cubes
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IQ influence
- IQ test scores have been shown to predict: School grades, achievement test scores, and years of education Occupational success Performance or earnings in complex jobs - The predictions are not perfect - Correlations range from .5-.7 for school grades, achievement tests, and education - Self-discipline can predict school grades better than IQ
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IQ implications
- School grades, test scores, occupational success, earnings Longevity - Higher IQ at 11, more likely to live to 76 years of age - Better physical health - Better mental health No set explanation, but could be that: - Genes associated with IQ are also associated with longevity - Intelligence, health, aging relate to the mitochondria - Education - More aware of risks (e.g., smoking)
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hereditary factors in IQ
- Identical twins’ scores are more similar than fraternal - Adopted children’s scores are more similar to their biological than adoptive parents - Cultural biases may yield: Higher scores for economically advantaged children Lower scores for economically disadvantaged children and minority ethnic groups Ethnic groups differ in how much experience they have taking standardized tests - Culture-fair tests Including test items that are based on common, cross-cultural knowledge and experiences Example: Raven’s Matrices (nonverbal test)
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IQ tests and cultural differences
- SES is a major factor - English proficiency - Stereotype threat Anxiety, lower performance connected to awareness of stereotype - Voluntary vs. involuntary minority status - Bias in testing Experience with tests Testing environment Ability to follow-up - Pygmalion Effect Children internalizing teacher’s expectations
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Pygmalion effect
Children internalizing teacher’s expectations - Self-fulfilling prophecy, internalization of expectations of an authority figure Rosenthal & Jacobson (1968) - Elementary teachers told that some students are expected to “bloom” - Random names - “Bloomers” scored higher on IQ compared to other students
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stereotype threat
- One source of the indifference in IQ scores between cultural minorities and the majority - People are aware of the stereotypes about them E.g., lower performance on IQ tests, math tests Steele & Aronson (1995) - African American & European American students - Either told they are taking an IQ test or not told - African American students scored higher when they were not told it was an IQ test
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testing considerations
- Specify cognitive processes involved - Use multiple tasks with the same individual - Culture-appropriate tests - Procedures that probe reasoning behind answers
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information-processing approach to intelligence
Basic-level processes - Speed of information processing Reaction times - Working memory Digit span tasks - Executive function Categorization Inhibition Resistance to interference Higher-order abilities - Strategies Plan operations and anticipate consequences - Knowledge base Understanding of the topic in question - Metacognition Understanding of their own cognitive abilities E.g., monitoring one’s own task performance - Speed of information processing and working memory distinguishes LD from non-LD children Reading abilities Varies with IQ - Suggesting a single underlying mechanism
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higher-order abilities of information-processing approach to intelligence
- strategies - knowledge base - metacognition
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strategies
planning the course of cognitive operations to anticipate the consequences of their and others’ behavior Distinguishes LD and non-LD children - Memory and recall tasks - Good and poor readers - Gifted and non-gifted More effective strategy use
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knowledge base
what you know about the topic - can influence cognitive performance
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knowledge base experiment --> Schneider et al. (1989)
- 3, 5, and 7 graders Classified as: - Soccer experts and novices - Successful learners and unsuccessful learners Grades, IQ - Told a story about soccer and asked to recall - Results: at every age, experts recalled more with no difference between lerner type - IQ, related to comprehension, yet what is also important is the knowledge base
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metacognition
understanding of one’s own cognitive abilities - monitoring progress on tasks Distinguishes: - Children with and without intellectual impairment - Reflective and impulsive children - Gifted and non-gifted Reflected in the quality of strategy use in training effectiveness
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metacognition experiment --> Borkowski and Peck (1986)
- 7-8-year-olds Classified: - Gifted and non-gifted Taught a memory strategy E.g., elaboration Banana, coat → imagine a banana with peel like a coat Generalizability task - Apply this strategy in different contexts Metamemory scores Results: gifted children were more likely to generalize the strategy
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information-processing approach summary
Looks into: - Specific aspects of cognition - Experimental methods for investigation Investigates - Sources of intellectual differences between
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Robert Sternberg' Theory (1996-2020)
Definition: (1) achieve one’s goals given one’s sociocultural context; (2) by capitalizing on strengths and correcting or compensating for weaknesses; (3) to adapt to, shape, and select environments Success in attained via - Practical skills - Creative skills - Analytic skills Intelligence can be assessed in real problems in social context Practical skills - Knowing which solution will work in everyday problems - E.g., “How to best support a friend?” - Culture-dependent - Involve: adaptation, selection, shaping Creative skills - Use prior knowledge - Dealing adaptively with new situations and problems E.g., design a study - Automize - Culture-independent Analytic skills - Information processing capability, memory, speed of processing, learning, and strategy use - Culture-independent Skills can be applied widely - Meta, performance, knowledge components Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory
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components of practical skills in Robert Sternberg' Theory
Ability to solve everyday problems occurring in a sociocultural context - adaptation - selection - shaping
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adaptation in practical skills
Ability to fit into the environment, adjustment of behavior E.g., How to best make new friends at the playground?
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selection in practical skills
Choosing the right environment E.g., if not making friends here, choose another playground
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shaping in practical skills
Changing the environment E.g., stay at the same playground but ask to change a game
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cultural relativism
what is required for adaptation, selection, shaping varies by culture
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creative skills in Robert Sternberg' Theory
Dealing with novelty and automation of processes - Both depend on experience and prior knowledge - Important for any occupation Some psychometric tests align with this theory - Picture arrangement - Finding similarities - Comprehension
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analytic skills in Robert Sternberg' Theory
- Ability to take apart, analyze, strategize, and solve Metacomponent - Allocate attentional resources and control the task Performance component - Executive strategies, information encoding Knowledge acquisition component - Learning new information - Reason why people get “smarter” with age
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Sternberg Triarchic Abilities Test (STAT)
Practical - What are the implications of infantile amnesia for your life? Creative - Design a study to test a theory of infantile amnesia? Analytical - Compare Freud’s theory of infantile amnesia with modern theories
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thinking pattern and instruction for Robert Thernberg' Theory
Students matched to a teaching style did better in an intense summer course than mismatched thinking pattern/teaching style (STAT test)
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College entrance exam for Robert Sternberg' Theory
- Administered STAT to first-years - Predict GPA (after 1 year) - Better predictor of college GPA than the SAT - Ethnic group differences reduced - Sternberg argued for education for “the whole child” → target all skill types
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Howard Gardner Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Intelligence is composed of multiple dependent modules - Linguistic - Logical-mathematical - Musical - Body-kinesthetic - Spatial - Naturalist - Interpersonal - Intrapersonal - Spiritual/existential Relies on neuropsychological evidence
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What is the inclusion criteria of Howard Gardner Theory of Multiple Intelligences based on?
- Potential isolation by brain damage If damage, ability impaired - The existence of savants and prodigies People with exceptional abilities - An identifiable core operation or set of operations Pitch perception is needed for music - A distinctive developmental history, along with a definable set of expert end-state performances Should develop, have a level achievable by mature performers (black belt) - An evolutionary history and evolutionary plausibility - Support from experimental psychological tasks and from psychometric findings - Susceptibility to encoding in a system Intelligence should use a symbolic form of representation
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stages of learning to read
- Stage 0 - Stage 1 - Stage 2 - Stage 3 - Stage 4
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Stage 0 of learning how to read
before school, recognition of familiar words, knowledge of individual letters
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Stage 1 of learning how to read
first year of formal schooling, writing into sounds (phonological recoding)
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Stage 2 of learning how to read
fluent reading, words and simple sentences, effortful, little understanding
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Stage 3 of learning to read
~fourth grade, skilled at reading from books to learn
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Stage 4 of learning how to read
~high school years, variety of written materials, inferences
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Matthew Effect
better readers get even better, while the poor readers are further behind - Better readers read more (and enjoy it more), and that practice leads them further - Poor readers read less (and enjoy it less), fall behind more, but may be improving in an “absolute sense”
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reading implications study --> Hernandez (2011)
- Longitudinal study - 4000 students Results: - If not proficient by the end of 3rd grade, they were 4 times more likely to drop out of school compared to proficient readers - 6 times more likely if they fail to master basic reading skills by the end of the 3rd grade
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reading to children
- children master reading in school but learn a lot about reading from home - Reading storybooks to children is beneficial - Better language skills, cognitive and reading abilities - Similar effects for preschoolers in shared reading programs
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picture books
- Have a greater diversity of words compared to everyday conversations - Source of vocabulary - American Academy of Pediatrics (2014) advises reading starting in infancy
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neurological evidence for reading benefits --> Hutton et al. (2015)
- 19 3-5-year-old children Brain imaging whale listening to stories Results: - Children who were exposed to more language (including being read to) showed greater activation in the left-parietal-temporal-occipital cortex - Area for language processing, mental imagery, and narrative comprehension
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emergent literacy
- The idea that there is a continuum of reading skills from preschooler to proficient reader - Existence of developmental precursors 1) language 2) conventions of print 3) knowledge of letters 4) linguistic awareness 5) phoneme-grapheme correspondence 6) emergent reading 7) emergent writing 8) print motivation 9) other cognitive skills
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language - emergent literacy
good with spoken language
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conventions of print - emergent literacy
left to right, top to bottom (English)
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knowledge of letters - emergent literacy
recite and identify ABCs (some think that “elemeno” is the letter between k and p)
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linguistic awareness - emergent literacy
tell apart phonemes, words
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phoneme-grapheme correspondence - emergent literacy
how sounds map onto letters
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emergent reading - emergent literacy
pretend to read, turn pages
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emergent writing - emergent literacy
pretend to write, making squiggles
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print motivation - emergent literacy
interest in written information; What is that secret code?
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other cognitive skills - emergent literacy
memory
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reading and SES
- Children with lower SES are more likely to have problems with reading in school compared to those with middle income - SES differences start at home Factors in low SES families: - Less likely to read to children - Have fewer books - Less fostering of emergent literacy Literacy skills determined before school, then? - No - If support levels change, so can children’s reading skills
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reading and cognitive skills
- Letter knowledge --> Permits sounding out words and establishes letter-to-sound connections - Phonemic awareness --> Knowing that words consist of separate sounds; Detecting rhymes By ~5 years; Tap for each sound 4-year-olds fail - Rapid automatized naming (RAN) --> Ability to quickly name words E.g., colors, numbers - All correlate with reading ability
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phonological recoding
understand how writing translate sounds - shallow and deep orthography
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orthography
spelling system of the language
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shallow orthography
converting letters into sounds is regular - German, Italian, Finnish, Spanish - E.g., Italian uses 25 phonemes with 33 combinations of letters used to represent them
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deep orthography
converting letters into sounds is irregular - English, Danish - Example: Honesty (h not read) If we follow English rules, then the alternative spelling for: Fish = ghoti Gh as in “cough” (f), o as in “woman” (i) and ti as in “nation” (sh) English has 40 phonemes with 1120 combinations
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dyslexia
a broad term covering difficulties in reading not correlated with overall intellectual capability
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phonological recoding and dyslexia
Problems with recoding → very strong predictor for reading disability - Children with dyslexia have trouble with pseudowords Indicates a phonetic problem - Older children with dyslexia read pseudowords better than younger
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working memory and reading
Memory span and reading ability correlate from preschool to college Deficits in working memory also associated with reading disability
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working memory and reading study --> Siegel (1993)
- 7-13-year-olds with and without reading disability - Given series of incomplete sentences to fill - In the summer it is very ____ - After 2, 3, 4, 5 trials, asked to repeat final words
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physical activity in schooling
- Formal schooling focuses on seat time - Cognitive benefits of physical activity Executive function Attentional resources management - US lags behind other countries in providing physical activity breaks for students Finland and Japan have 15 minute breaks every hour
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Chein et al. (2011)
Background - Adolescents are more likely to engage in risk-taking compared to children or adults Results - Increased risk-taking among 14-18-year-olds when peers are present - No difference in adults In car driving game fMRI with go/no go - Heightened activity in reward pathways Ventral striatum (VS) and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) Implications - No pressure needed - Just being in the presence increased the likelihood - When alone, adults and teens are similar
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violation of expectation method
a technique used to study the cognitive abilities of preverbal infants by observing how they react to events that either match or contradict their expectations. It involves presenting infants with events that violate or conform to their expected outcomes and then measuring their looking times or other behavioral/physiological responses to see if they react differently to the unexpected event
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How did Baillargeon and colleagues show support for the core knowledge theory?
by demonstrating that infants as young as 3-4 months possess some understanding of object permanence, a concept previously thought to emerge much later. Their research using violation of expectation experiments showed that infants looked longer at "impossible" events, where objects seemed to violate physical laws, than at "possible" events. This suggests infants have a basic understanding of how objects behave in the physical world and are surprised when these expectations are violated
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mean monkey
- 3-4-year-olds - Monkey puppet asks what stickers they liked, then took them away - 4-year-olds quickly understood that you need to say the opposite - 3-year-olds kept telling the truth
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DQ scores behaviors
- responding to the sound of the bell - smiling at the mirror image - responding to verbal requests - saying words
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letter knowledge
Permits sounding out words and establishes letter-to-sound connections
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phonemic awareness
Knowing that words consist of separate sounds; Detecting rhymes By ~5 years; Tap for each sound 4-year-olds fail
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Rapid automatized naming (RAN)
Ability to quickly name words E.g., colors, numbers
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basic-level processes of information-processing approach to intelligence
- Speed of information processing Reaction times - Working memory Digit span tasks - Executive function Categorization Inhibition Resistance to interference