PSYC 2010U Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Metacognition, Short-Term Memory, Mental Age
Document Summary
Develop responsibility more accountable for their actions, more self-sufficient. Develop social networks adhere to social norms. Decentration: cognitive ability to consider multiple features of a situation at once, happens during middle childhood, crucial for development of concrete operations. Concrete operations: piaget"s theory, allow children to mentally combine, separate, order, transform, concrete objects and events, doing this with abstract ideas and items is usually still unachievable, conservation. Involves some memory skills as well: usually tested by giving children mazes to solve. In early childhood to the beginning of middle childhood, children will try to figure it out as they go. In later middle childhood, children will plan more and go about the maze more carefully: metacognition, awareness of one"s own cognition, early childhood, children overestimate their cognition, middle childhood, children are more realistic about their cognition. Cognitive mechanisms: assimilation new info incorporated into existing schemas, accommodation existing schemas modified to handle new info.
