Social Economic Status

Social Economic Status

1. cognitive development

   • processing information, conceptual knowledge, perception, language and memory.
   • piagetian theory
     • Stage based theory in which children are viewed as  ‘little scientists’ who learn about the world through forming schemas based on experience. 
     • Approach (De Vries, 1974)
       • 145 children 5-12 split into 3 groups ranging in IQ level. conservation tests were completed - found relationship between several measures of Piagetian development and IQ.

2. Intelligence

   • Fluid intelligence
     • ability to use abstract/logic reasoning to solve novel problems - argued to decline with age. 
   • Crystallised intelligence
     • ability to use prior knowledge - relatively stable through life - dependent on cultural influence.
   • information processing approach (Sternberg, 2006)
     • Triarchic theory (3 components) - analytic intelligence (academic problem solving and computation) - creative intelligence (imaginative and innovative problem solving) - Practical intelligence (street smarts and common sense)

3. Neuroconstructivism approach (Filippi and Karmiloff-Smith)

   • considers domain specificity to be an outcome of development rather than a starting point.