PSYCH 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.2: Prefrontal Cortex, Preschool

• School: UCLA
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 130
• Professor: elizabethdarvick

Document Summary

Attributes change within each of piaget"s stages and movement from one stage to the next to increases in the efficiency with which children use their limited working memory capacity. Early childhood - internal representations of events and actions. Middle childhood - simple transformations of representations. Through repeated use, child"s schemes become automatic. Practicing schemes automation frees working memory for other activities scheme combination and construction. Automation + increased processing speeds space in working memory available to consolidate schemes generate central conceptual structures. Networks of concepts and relations that permit them to think about a wide. Conservation: child gains experience in transferring liquids automatic schemes range of situations in more advanced ways combines to conserving response. Coordinate several task specific conserving responses into a new broadly applicable principle (central conceptual structure) Continuum of acquisition in information processing: many understandings appear in specific situations at different times rather than being mastered all at once.