PSYC 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Spatial Ability, Mental Rotation, Heredity
17 Dec 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Children first use mental operations to solve problems and to reason. Mental operations: strategies and rules that make thinking more systematic and powerful. Mental operations give concrete operational thinking a rule-oriented, logical flavor that is missing in preoperational thought. Understand that certain actions can be reversed, restoring objects to their original status. Egocentrism disappears as children gain more experience with friends and siblings who assert their own perspectives on the world. Preschool: children took at or touch objects that they"ve been told to remember. 7-8 yrs: rehearsal; repetitively naming information that needs to be remembered. In middle school, children find their own memory strategies. Steps to monitor an effective memory strategy: determine goal, select strategy, use strategy, monitor strategy. If not effective, start from step 1 again. The knowledge that allows a child to organize information and give it meaning usually increases with age. Entries in the network are linked by different types of associations.
