FRHD 2270 Chapter 9: Chapter 9
23 Nov 2017
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Jean piaget: preoperational stage the stage of cognitive development during which children use symbols to represent objects and events. Gradually become proficient at using common symbols. Characteristics of preoperational thinking: thinking is quite limited compared to that of school-age children due to 3 important characteristics of preoperational thought, egocentrism seeing the world primarily from the perspective of self rather than of other people. Do not comprehend that other people have different ideas and feelings: centration the term for narrowly focused thought, typically during the preoperational stage. Infants create na ve theories of physics and biology: 4-year-olds theories of biology include the following elements, movement, growth. Attention: attention the process by which information is selected to be processed further, always negotiating the balance between perceptual input and directed attention, regulation of attention improves during the preschool years. Memory: autobiographical memory people"s (cid:373)e(cid:373)ories of the sig(cid:374)ifi(cid:272)a(cid:374)t e(cid:448)e(cid:374)ts a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es of their own lives.
