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five-to-seven shift

the striking progress in children’s cognitive development between the ages of 5 and 7, when very significant advances in such areas as reasoning and logic, linguistic ability, memory, and problem solving occur. [introduced in 1965 by Sheldon H. White]

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weak central coherence

weak central coherence

see central coherence theory.