Week 4 - Cognitive Development

The information processing approach to development takes a...

What are the 4 areas of children's thinking according to Siegler?

At what age to infants begin to selectively attend to objects?

At what age do children start to efficiently attend to task relevant stimuli?

Incidental learning decreases rapidly after what age?

What are 2 ways memory is tested in infants?

Implicit memory develops up until adolescence.

What are some of the memory strategies and ages at which they typically develop?

What are some of the things that increase memory as we age?

[blank_start]Vygotsky[blank_end] saw private speech as a child being more socially competent. [blank_start]Piaget[blank_end] saw private speech as a child being cognitively immature.

[blank_start]Realism[blank_end] describes how before 6-7 years of age children think their dreams and thoughts are real and could be seen by anyone. [blank_start]Animism[blank_end] describes how children think inanimate things are alive and have intentions.

At what age does joint attention and social referencing start occurring?