Development

Question 1

What is a schema?

Answer 1

A mental structure containing all the information we have about one aspect of the world

Question 2

Brain stem location

Answer 2

Connects to the spinal cord

Question 3

Brain stem function

Answer 3

Motor and sensory functions - carries motor and sensory nerves to the rest of the body via the spinal cord. Autonomic function eg. breathing

Question 4

Brain stem time of development

Answer 4

Most highly developed part at birth

Question 5

Cortex location

Answer 5

Principal part of the brain

Question 6

Cortex function

Answer 6

Thinking (cognition) - frontal cortex sensory processing and motor processing

Question 7

Cortex time of development

Answer 7

Primitive at birth and continues to develop throughout our lives

Question 8

Cerebellum location

Answer 8

Near the top of the spinal cord

Question 9

Cerebellum function

Answer 9

Important role in coordination of movement balance Coordinates sensory information with motor activity has input in functions language and emotions

Question 10

Cerebellum time of development

Answer 10

One of the last parts of the brain to reach maturity

Question 11

Thalamus location

Answer 11

Located deep in the brain (one in each hemisphere)

Question 12

Thalamus function

Answer 12

Acts as a hub of information receiving signals from other areas of the brain

Question 13

What is accommodation?

Answer 13

Developing the detail of each of our schemas and on some occasions developing completely new ones

Question 14

What is assimilation?

Answer 14

Understanding a new experience and adding that information to our existing schema

Question 15

What is egocentrism?

Answer 15

Child’s tendency to see the world from their own point of view applies to physical objects and arguments where they can only appreciate their perspective.

Question 16

Piaget’s theory

Answer 16

Young children can’t think logically about the world as their brains aren’t mature enough in the same way a child can’t walk as their muscles and coordination aren’t mature enough

Question 17

What is conservation?

Answer 17

The ability to realize quality remains the same even when the appearance of an object (group of objects) changes

Question 18

Sensorimotor stage

Answer 18

0-7 focus is on physical sensations. Object performance develops in this stage.

Question 19

Pre-operational stage

Answer 19

2-7 mobile and can use language but doesn’t think in a consistently logical way

Question 20

Concrete operational stage

Answer 20

7-11 years developed reasoning abilities but only with physical objects. Most can conserve and cope with tasks of egocentrism.

Question 21

Formal operational stage

Answer 21

11+ can reason formally abstract ideas. Can focus on the form of an argument and not be distract by its context.