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Three Cognitive Skills: Middle Childhood

• 1978 ----- color ----- 20 min ----- 16mm
• Reading, memory and creativity provide the foundations of a child's ability to blend into society and the world as a whole. Each of the skills, the keys to normal growth, is illustrated. Shows that a variety of factors, including intelligence, school and home environment and physical coordination have an effect on reading readiness. Memory and its operation is shown in a short vignette. The short term memory for verbal information and the importance of memory strategy versus spontaneous rehearsal become evident. Creativity and abstract thought begin to occur with more regularity in the middle years.
• Topics: (Educational Psychology, Pediatrics)

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