PSYC 4070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oral Rehydration Therapy, Pertussis, Erik Erikson
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Under age 5: 1 out of 3 children in the world die. Causes: diarrhea and resulting dehydration treat with oral rehydration therapy low cost, measles, tetanus, whooping cough can immunize, acute respiratory infections (pneumonia) life threatening. Piaget"s preoperational stage, and a brief introduction to information processing theory. An alternative to piagetism theory is: information processing theory: it tries to understand how humans think by comparing human thinking to computers, focuses on memory. What is memory: to remember, one must: Retrieve (get items back: infants encode & organize information very differently than adults, adults use language to store things in memory, preverbal infants/children clearly cant do this, memory maintaining information over time. Preschooler"s reasoning is transductive: from a specific instance to another specific instance, preoperational preschoolers tend to draw spurious cause & effect. Preoperational egocentrism: can"t take other"s perspectives, everything i know everyone knows. Representational ability: can symbolize things mentally, language is representational. Everything is alive, especially things that move: artificalism.
