HD 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Short-Term Memory, Prefrontal Cortex, Implicit Memory
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Belief that objects have lifelike qualities and are capable of action. Zone of proximal development: what a child can accomplish with some degree of help. Scaffolding: changing amount of support to fits child"s current performance. Executive attention: planning, attending to goals, error detection and compensation, monitor progress on tasks, dealing with novel or difficult circumstances. Sustained attentions: focused and extend engagement with an object, task, event or other aspect of the environment. Increase in attention facilitated by advances in comprehension and language. Deficits in attention that persist: salience vs. relevance. Salience: there could be a very obvious characteristic they don"t notice it because it isn"t important: planfulness. Memory: the retention of information over time. Implicit memory: skills and routine procedures that are preformed automatically without conscious recollection (perceptual-motor actions in particular) Consists of a number of higher-level cognitive processes (including executing attention) linked to the developmental of the brain"s prefrontal cortex.
