Cognition In Infants And Children (NA)
The University of Birmingham (UBir)
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Complete exam notes for Cognition in Infants and Children
- Lecture notes • 62 pages • 2023
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Information Processing theories
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Piaget: argued that thought is mental action on representations
On the other hand IPT’s: argue that thinking is information processing (brain=hardware and mind=software)
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Number
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Learning some important number properties for infant development:
•	Cardinality 
•	Ordinality
•	Arithmetic relations 
Counting properties for children is explained
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Memory Development 1
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Memory development helps with Information Processing Theories 
How large is the infants' memory capacity?
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Memory Development 2
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How do children get more out of their memory capacity?
We look at strategies, content knowledge and metacognition
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Introduction Lecture
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Early cognitive developmental psychology began without a clear model of adult cognition 
Contemporary work is heavily influenced by the successful models discussed in the adult literature 
The Adult model and the Developmental model are explained, in reference to The Working Model by Baddely

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Time and Space
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When do infants notice the order of events?
Do they see themselves in space and time?
They use spatial reasoning with language
From a very early age, infants show ability to encode space allocentrically, egocentrically and in relation to landmarks
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Piaget's theory
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How do we acquire knowledge about the world? We are born with relatively little knowledge so how do we get knowledge; there is a massive transition from infant to adult. 
The child acts on the world and adapts to 3 developmental mechanisms: Assimilation, Accommodation and Equilibrium
This lecture gives information about how human infants acquire knowledge in light of Piaget's theory with the 4 stages of development
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Challenging Piaget's theory
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Do infants really only have reflexes and sense impressions?
Is development stage-like? ( objections to this theory)
Is the idea of domain-general learning mechanisms convincing?

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Understanding the mind
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•	Some folk-physical principles (basic principle): objects are solid, and objects exist even when we can’t see them, and forces movement.
•	Folk-physical explanations: Why did the cup move upwards from the table? An upward force greater than gravity acted it upon. The lateral force from fingers around the cup induced sufficient friction to allow the upward force to be effected. 
•	(Not interested in scientific understanding, but more about everyday social understanding.)

•	Some fo...
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