Development Flashcards
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Function + Definition of Cortex
Outer Cover, Cognition
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- The outer covering of the brain where mental processing takes place
-Thinking in the frontal cortex - Sensory processing in visual and auditory area
- Motor processing in motor area
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Function + Definition of Thalamus
Signals
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- Acts as a hub for information for the brain recieving and sending signals
- Recieves sensory signals from retina in eye, sends signals onto visual area
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Function + Definition of Cerebellum
Coordination of movement
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- ‘Little’ brain located near the top of the spinal cord
- Plays important role in coordination of movement eg your balance
- Coordinates sensory info with motor activity (sensorimotor)
- Last part of brain to reach maturity
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Function + Definition of Brain Stem
Breathing, Basic Functions
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- Part of the brain that connects to the spinal cord
- Carries motor and sensory nerves between brain and rest of body via spinal cord
- Control autonomic functions; breathing, heart beat
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What is nature?
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Refers to genetic influences and characteristics inherited from ancestors
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What is nurture
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Refers to how you were raised, your experiences and environment
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AO1 of Piagets theory of Cognitive Development
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- Piaget believed that children don’t simply know less, they think in a quite different way
- He suggested that young children are not able to think logically about the world, their brains are simply not mature enough to think in a logical way
- As a child gets older, their brain develops and different kinds of thinking are possible; being able to use numbers and thinking in abstract ways
- As they develop, they also develop schemas; mental representations of the world. They become more complex through accomodation and assimilation
- Assimilation; adding new info to an existing schema
- Accommodation: occurs when a new experience can be added to an existing schema to develop the schema
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AO3 of Piagets theory of Cognitive Development
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- One strength of Piaget’s theory is that it has helped change classroom teaching for the better; led to teachers doing more activity-based learning. This has helped children learn in a more effective way
- One weakness of Piaget’s theory is that it involved middle class swiss children. He developed his theory from research studies
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