Cognitive development in early childhood

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Cognitive development in early childhood

• Moving on - More than just Piaget

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Modularity approaches

• Brain maturation
• Learnability
• Dissociation

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Early abilities

• Causal reasoning
• Object permanence

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Isolated abilities

• Child prodigies
• Handicapped individuals

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Information processing approaches

• Attention
• Memory - how much can a child remember?

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Number skills

• One-to-one correspondence
• Knowing number sequence

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Special skills in young children

• Child prodigies

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Drawing

• First just like moving hand on paper
• Then learn rules for representing objects
• Then three-dimensional rules

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Socialisation approaches

• Drawing for fun
• Drawing things that are acceptable to adults
• Perspective-taking