hdfs 239
- Three main approaches to cognitive development:
- Piagetian (cognitive-developmental)
- Transition to adolescence in marked by a qualitative, not quantitative change
- Transition is stage-like
- Transition is caused by accommodation and assimilation
- Transitions causes a phenomenological shift
- Information processing
- Transition to adolescence is quantitative
- Analogy to computers
- Focus is on specific mechanisms underlying cognitive abilities
- attention
- working memory
- speed of processing
- organizational strategies
- metacognition
- Psychometric
- Focus is on measurement of abilities and prediction of future performance
- Key distinctions:
- aptitude v. ability v. achievement
- global v. specific abilities