PSY 213 1st Edition Lecture 14 Outline of Last Lecture I Body Growth and Change II The Brain III Exercise IV Health Illness and Disease V The Scope of Disabilities Outline of Current Lecture I Educational Issues II Piaget s Cognitive Developmental Theory III Information Processing Current Lecture I Educational Issues Individualized Education Plan IEP Written statement that is specifically tailored for the disabled student Legal document that lays out exactly what the child is entitled to during the school day Least Restrictive Environment LRE Setting that is as similar as possible to the one in which non disabled children are educated Inclusion Educating a child with special education needs full time in the regular classroom Sometimes this is not great because sometimes children act extremely inappropriate for other children in the classroom to witness II Piaget s Cognitive Developmental Theory These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Concrete operational stage Ages 7 to 11 Children are able to problem solve better Can t think abstractly Children can perform concrete operations and reason logically and are able to classify things into different sets Seriation Ability to order stimuli along a quantitative dimension give a child sticks of different lengths Tell child to put sticks small to large Transitivity Ability to logically combine relations to understand certain conclusions I have three sticks if a is large b smaller c is smallest child will be able to say that a is bigger than c Kids at this age are not as distracted by appearances They can think more logically Evaluating Piaget s concrete operational stage each phase is different because it is stages Follow up researchers say it is not as clean as Piaget thought children build on previous known things Concrete operational abilities do not appear in synchrony Development is influenced by education and culture exert strong influences on children s development III Information Processing Long term memory A relatively permanent and unlimited type of memory Increases with age during middle and late childhood Knowledge and expertise Experts have acquired extensive knowledge about a particular content area Strategies Deliberate mental activities that improve the processing of information Not automatic things o Elaboration Extensive processing of the information o Engage in mental imagery o Understanding the material o Repeat with variation o Embed memory relevant language
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