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Developmental Psychology Lecture 4 Notes
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- 1What are the 5 main critiques of Piagetian Theory?1. He underestimates children's abilities
2. Overestimates age differences in thinking
3. Vagueness about the process of change
4. Underestimates the role of social environment
5. Lack of evidence for qualitatively different stages - 2What are the 4 possible reasons 'pre-operational' children may fail Piagetian tasks?1. Limited information processing ability?
2. Limited knowledge/experience of the world?
3. Limited linguistic skills?
4. Influence on social/interactional context? - 3What kind of Object Conception can 5 month old's have?Infants seem capable of object permanence at 5 months old.
Infants seem knowledgeable of objects' physical properties. - 4What are the 5 fundamentals of counting?1. One to one correspondence
2. Stable order
3. Cardinality
4. Order irrelevance
5. Abstraction - 5What are the information processing limitations, and how do they change?1. Memory - Increase with age in; working memory span, spontaneous and efficient use of strategies
2. Attention - Increase with age in; Systematic strategies for directing attention, selective attention (ignoring distractions) - 6What conclusions were drawn from all of this?Young children sometimes think qualitatively different ways from adults/older children.
This is because limitations in information-processing abilities and in-domain specific knowledge may also affect the way they think.
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