Developmental Psychology
Lecture 7

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 1. Attentional processing
  • selectivity
  • adaptability
  • cognitive inhibition

Miller's attentional strategies

  • Production deficiency
  • Control deficiency
  • Utilization deficiency
  • Effective strategy use

2. Memory

2.1 Origins of Memory

2.2 Strategies for remembering

  • rehearsal
  • organization
  • elaboration
  • cultural influences

2.3 Long-term memory

  • recognition
  • recall
  • reconstruction
  • Fuzzy-trace theory

2.4 Knowledge and memory

  • autobiographical memory
  • infantile amnesia
  • episodic memories
  • eyewitness testimony

3. Academic skills

3.1 Reading

  • word recognition
  • comprehension
  • phonological awareness

3.2 Writing

  • knowledge-telling strategy
  • knowledge-transforming strategy

3.3 Numbers

  • intrinsic properties
  • one-to-one principle
  • stable order principle
  • cardinality principle

4. Intelligence

4.1 The computation and distribution of intelligence scores

  • intelligence quotient

4.2 Intelligence Tests for Children

4.2.1. Group Administered Tests

4.2.2.      The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale

4.2.3. The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - III

4.2.4. Infant Intelligence Tests

4.3 What and how well do intelligence test measure?

  • Stability
  • Scholastic performance
  • Occupational performance
  • Psychological adjustment

4.4 Ethnic and socio-economic differences in IQ

  • Socio-economic status (SES)

4.5 Explaining individual and group differences

  • Genetic influences
  • Ethnicity and test bias
  • Reducing test bias
  • Dynamic testing
  • Approach authentic assessment measures
  • Home environment

4.6 Early Intervention programs

4.7 Creative & gifted children

  • convergent thinking
  • divergent thinking

4.8 Mental retardation

4.9 Learning disabilities