PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Motor Skill, Preterm Birth, Gestation
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Cognitive development: cognition=mental activities associated with thinking, reasoning, memory. Iv: childhood-piaget"s theory describes how cognition changes as we mature, taught at high school and drew observations, bendura was there too and was developing tests. Accommodation change our understanding of world to fit new info, ex: adult coaches child into learning that moose is a different animal, not a horse. Some problems-piaget underestimated children"s abilities (children can"t uncover the. Hidden object cause they can"t move their hands or they"re not motivated to) and some children fluctuate between stages. Parents help understand children"s capabilities, and helps with curriculum design. Intellectual performance evens off between 40"s and 60"s and slightly declines after 60"s (could be from reading/writing skills, distracted thoughts, motor speed) best way to keep intellectual skills is to use them. Memory-very slight steady decline after mid-30"s for recall tests (aaah!!!) because it"s more specific. generally less decline in recognition tests. Babies are born with some reflexes, and we teach them others.
