development Flashcards
what is brain stem
controls the unconsious activies and the autonmoic functions
cerebellum
muscle coordinationat
cerberal cortext
where all the thinking and processing happens there
thalamus
small brain its the hu of information and it recieves signals from the retina
what is nature
the first momment the first cell is formed its inherutted from the genetic factors
nurture
enviromental influemce
smoking
nicotoine slows down brain growth and so this would affect how the size of the brain of the baby
infection
pregnenat mothers should avoid anyone who has rubella cause it leads to hearing loss - nurture
voices
babies appear to recognise thier mothers before birth this shows how thier brain is repsonding and changing to responds external stimuli
shema
is the oragnistaion and a metal framework of knwolged about the world
what are the stages in piagets theory
young children cant tink logicay and so they have small number of schema they will devlop thier schema through assimilation and accomodation
what is assimilation
where the new inforamtion is not adeapeted and it doesnt mathc , new information is going to be added to our existing schema
accomadation
there is big chnace required fro a schema then a new schema has to be made , gradually new information will develop
A03 for piaget
one weakness is that he only looked at one type of children ….
one wstrnegth is that theroes his therories by enormous others theories
conservation
the apoercace chnages but not the amounnt