Ch.12: Cognitive and Biological Attainments of Middle Childhood
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- EEG Coherence
- the synchronization of electrical activity in different areas of the brain.
- concrete operations
- coordinated mental actions that fit into a logical system in a way that creates greater unity of thinking.
- conservation
- piaget's term for the understanding that some properties of an object or substance remain the same even when its appearance is altered in some superficial way.
- identity
- mental operation in which the child realizes that a change limited to outward appearance does not change the substances involved.
- compensation
- a mental operation in which the child realizes that changes in one aspect of a problem are compared with and compensated for by changes in another aspect.
- reversibility
- a mental operation in which the child realizes that one operation can be negated, or reversed, by the effects of another.
- memory span
- the number of randomly presented items of info that can be repeated immediately after they are presented.
- strategy
- deliberate, controllable cognitive operation performed for the purpose of attaining a particular goal
- rehearsal
- process of repeating to oneself the material that one is trying to memorize.
- memory organization
- a memory strategy in which children mentally group the materials to be remembered in meaningful clusters of closely associated items.
- elaboration
- a memory strategy in which children identify or make up connections between two or more things they have to remember
- metamemory
- ability to think about one's memory processes
- plan
- cognitive representations of actions needed to achieve a specific goal.
- metacognition
- ability to think about one's own thought processes