PSY210H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Cognitive Development, Lev Vygotsky, Egocentrism
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Obstacles to logic: four limitations that make logic difficult until age 6, centration tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation to the exclusion of all others. E. g. their parents were never a child, they are what they are right now: irreversibility failure to recognize that reversing a process sometimes restores whatever existed before. E. g. not eating the sandwich with lettuce on it even if it was. Private speech or internal dialogue people talk to themselves, this aids children"s cognition and self-reflection. Social mediation words entice people into the zone of proximal development: stem learning, preschoolers gradually learn to: (math) Hopeless lies: the candies got out themselves . Unlikely lies: other children came in and knock it over . Plausible lies: my elbow knocked over the cup accidentally : better liars more advanced theory of mind and executive functioning.
