Chapter 5: Physical and Cognitive Development. Setting the Context: Special Social Learning Tasks  What sets us apart from other animals?  Human Socialization.

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Chapter 5: Physical and Cognitive Development

Setting the Context: Special Social Learning Tasks  What sets us apart from other animals?  Human Socialization  Learn norms of our culture  Ability to take another person’s perspective  Mind-reading skill (begins with joint attention)  Language

Slow-growing Frontal Lobes  Compared to other parts of the brain, frontal lobe development is on a delayed timetable.  As frontal lobes mature throughout childhood and adolescence, our ability to think through, inhibit, and plan our actions gradually improves.

Physical Development  Cephalocaudal sequence—bodies elongate and lengthen  Mass-to-specific sequence—physical abilities become more coordinated and precise  Two types of physical skills  Gross Motor skills: large muscle movement  Fine Motor skills: small coordinated movement

Threats to Growth and Motor Skills  Inadequate Nutrition: top-ranking twenty-first- century global public health threat to physical development!  Stunting  Compromises bone, muscle, and brain development  Causes lethargy  Impairs gross and fine motor skills

Cognitive Development

Cognitive Development Piaget’s Preoperational Stage  Spans ages 2–7  Preoperational thinking  Characteristics  Child has an inability to step back from his immediate perceptions and think conceptually.  Thinking is qualitatively unlike that of an adult.  Child cannot reason logically, and cannot look beyond appearance of objects.  Young children understand only what they can see.

Assessing Preoperational Thought  Piaget’s Conservation Tasks  Conservation: our knowledge that the amount of a given substance remains the same despite changes in its shape or form  Preoperational children do not understand:  The laws of conservation!  The concept of reversibility!  Children center only on what they can see!

Preoperational Thinking  Children also have trouble grasping these concepts:  Class inclusion: the understanding that a general category can encompass several subordinate elements  Seriation: the ability to put things in order according to some principle, such as size

Preoperational Thinking: Peculiar Perceptions About People  Children have an inability to grasp “identity constancy”  A person’s core “self” stays the same despite changes in external appearance.

Peculiar Perceptions about People  Animism  The belief that inanimate objects are alive  Artificialism  The belief that humans make everything in nature  Egocentrism  An inability to understand another’s perspective

Piaget’s Concrete Operational Stage: Ages 8–11  Transition from preoperations to concrete operations develops gradually (5–7), but by age 8 children are firmly in this stage.  Understand conservation tasks  Understand identity constancy  Look beyond immediate appearances  Begin to understand principles of basic math

Lev Vygotsky: A Different View of Cognitive Growth  Human interaction promotes learning and cognitive growth.  Zone of Proximal Development  Scaffolding  Learning is bidirectional.

Tips for Effective Scaffolding  First and foremost, foster a secure attachment.  Break larger cognitive tasks into smaller, more manageable steps.  When child makes a mistake, give nonthreatening feedback.  Continue helping until child has mastered concept, then move on.  Set an overall framework for the learning task and build in motivation.

Cognitive Development: Information-Processing Perspective  Looks at specific skills such as the development of memory, concentration, and the ability to inhibit and control our actions  Mental growth occurs gradually, not in stages.  Attempts to decode the “processing steps” involved in thinking  Explores the development of memory and executive functions

Information Processing: Making Sense of Memory  Working Memory  Holds about 7 bits of information  Keeps information in awareness; we either process information or discard it  Executive processor: allows us to focus on important material to prepare for permanent storage  Memory bin capacity expands between ages 2–7.  Allows for new understanding at around 7–8 (concrete operations)

Information Processing: Exploring Executive Functions  Executive Functions: any frontal-lobe ability that allows us to inhibit our responses and to plan and direct our thinking  Rehearsal  Selective Attention  Inhibition

Language  Vygotsky  Emphasized language as being front and center of everything we learn  inner speech: repeating information silently or “out loud” in order to regulate behavior or to master cognitive challenges  Young children speak “out loud” to monitor their behavior.

Developing Speech  By age 2, children begin to put together words.  Phonemes: individual word sounds of language (e.g., in English, “c” sound for cat)  Morphemes: the basic meaning units of language  Coded by “mean length of utterance” (MLU)  “Me want juice” = 3 MLU’s  Syntax:  System of grammatical rules in a particular language

Developing Speech  Semantics: understanding word meanings  About 10,000 words at age 6  Vocabulary continues to grow throughout life.  Overregularization  Puts irregular “pasts” and “plurals” into regular form  “If I walked, I also must have runned and swimmed.”  Over/underextensions  Applies verbal labels too broadly/narrowly

Making Sense of Other’s Minds: Theory of Mind  The understanding that other people have different beliefs and perspectives from one’s own  Emerges about age 4–5  Typical in Western cultures  Researchers use “False- Belief” studies  See illustration at right.  “Mean Monkey” exercise  Studies proved Piaget’s belief’s about preoperational egocentrism had flaws. #3: Where will Mrs. X look for the toy?

Differences in Development of Theory of Mind?  Early development of Theory of Mind  Having older siblings  Advanced intellectual development  Bilingual preschoolers  Later development of Theory of Mind  Frontal lobe damage  Autism “mindblindness”