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Childhood
COGNITIVE CHANGES
LANGUAGE
By ages 5 or 6: All
children have
mastered the basic
grammar and
pronounciation of
their first language
Most children
understand various
ways of saying
something about the
past, such as I
went, I was going,
I have gone, I had
been going, and so
on
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE
8 9 years: figure out
relationships between
whole categories of words
happy and happily
happy &
happiness
sad and sadly
sad &
sadness
9 years: most children are fully
ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
ADJECTIVE &
capable
NOUN of engaging in fluent
conversation with speaker of any
age, and their speech rates approach
those of adults
Ages 6 12
They are
equal
Another example of
decentering: In
diagram A, both lines
of candy have the same
number and length.
In diagram B, the first
line is spread out,
making it look longer
than the 2nd line of
candies, but still have
the same amount.
Inductive Logic
-she can go from her own experience to
a general principle
For example, when one toy is added to
a set of toys, it has one more than it
did before
Adding always makes more
Horizontal Decalage
refers to fact that once a child learns
a certain function, he or she does not
have the capability to immediately
apply the learned function to all
problems.