PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Scale Space, Synaptic Pruning, Memory Span

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Kathleen Bloom

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Psychology 211 chapter 12: cognitive development in middle childhood. Concrete operational stage: extends from about 7 to 11 years. Thought is now more logical, flexible, and organized than it was during early childhood. Provides a clear evidence of operations mental actions that obey logical rules. Reversibility: the capacity to think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction, returning to the starting point. Bet(cid:449)ee(cid:374) ages (cid:1011) a(cid:374)d (cid:1005)(cid:1004), (cid:272)hild(cid:396)e(cid:374) pass piaget"s (cid:272)lass i(cid:374)(cid:272)lusio(cid:374) p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373) Indicates they are more aware of classification hierarchies and can focus on relations between a general category and two specific categories at the same time. Collections such as stamps, coins, rocks become more common in middle childhood. Seriation: ability to order items along a quantitative dimension such as length or weight. Transitive inference: concrete operational child can seriate mentally. Requires children to integrate three relations at once. Cognitive maps: mental representations of familiar large scale spaces, such as their neighborhood or school.