When students have studied the material in the
chapter, they will be able to answer the following: - Introduction
- What are the major cognitive advances and limitations of middle childhood?
- What are the connections between social interaction and cognitive development in middle childhood?
- How do the real-world demands placed on children this age, at home and at school, allow for and foster cognitive development?
- Major cognitive developments of middle childhood
- How does children's understanding of conservation change during middle childhood?
- How does children's understanding of classification improve during middle childhood?
- How do children's attentional abilities change from early to middle childhood?
- How do changes in memory capacity, knowledge base, mnemonic strategies, and metamemory contribute to memory development in middle childhood?
- Social interaction and cognitive development
- How do didactic and cooperative learning experiences advance children's cognitive development?
- Individual differences in intelligence
- Explain the various ways that psychologists have conceptualized intelligence.
- What roles do heredity and environment, including culture, play in the development of intelligence?
- Culture and school achievement
- In what ways are culture and school achievement related?
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