EED 305 Study Guide - Final Guide: Synaptic Pruning, Tic-Tac-Toe
30 Jun 2019
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Cases neo- piagetian theory accepts piaget"s stages but attributes change within each stage, and movement from one stage to the next, to increases in the efficiency with which children use their limited working-memory capacity. Neurological changes, including myelination, synaptic growth, and synaptic pruning, improve the efficiency of thought, leading to readiness for each stage. Case, biology imposes a systemwide ceiling on cognitive development. At any given time, the child cannot exceed a certain upper limit of processing speed. practice with schemes and automization. In case"s theory, piagetian schemes are the child"s mental strategies. Within each stage, through repeated use, the child"s schemes become automatic, freeing working-memory resources for combining existing schemes and generating new ones. Notice how case"s mechanisms of cognitive change offer a clarified view of. Practicing schemes (assimilation) leads to automization, which releases working memory for other activities, permitting scheme combination and construction (accommodation). formation of central conceptual structures.
