Development - How did you develop?

Question 1

Brain

Answer 1

The organ in your head made up of nerves that processes information and controls behavior.

Question 2

Forebrain

Answer 2

The anterior part of the brain including the hemispheres and the central brain structures. After 5 weeks, a fetus’s forebrain is split into 2 sections, the anterior and the posterior.

Question 3

Midbrain

Answer 3

The middle section of the brain forming part if the central nervous system.

Question 4

Hindbrain

Answer 4

The lower part of the brain that includes the cerebellum, pons and medulla oblongata.

Question 5

Anterior

Answer 5

Directed towards the front, when used in relation to our biology.

Question 6

Posterior

Answer 6

Directed towards the back, when used in relation to our biology.

Question 7

Cerebellum

Answer 7

An area of the brain near to. the brainstem that controls motor movements (muscle activity).

Question 8

Medulla oblongata

Answer 8

Connects the upper brain to the spinal cord and controls automatic responses.

Question 9

Involuntary response

Answer 9

A response to a stimulus that occurs without someone making a conscious choice. They are automatic, such as reflexes.

Question 10

Neural connections

Answer 10

Links formed by messages passing from one nerve cell (neuron) to another.

Question 11

Cognitive

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Thinking, including problem-solving, perceiving, remembering, using language and reasoning.

Question 12

Operations

Answer 12

How we reason and think about things.

Question 13

Object permanence

Answer 13

Knowing something exists out of out sight. Babies develop this around 6 months old.

Question 14

Symbolic play

Answer 14

Children play using objects and ideas to represent other objects and ideas.

Question 15

Egocentrism

Answer 15

Unable to see the world from any other viewpoint but one’s own.

Question 16

Animism

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Believing that objects are not alive can behave as if they are alive.

Question 17

Centration

Answer 17

Focusing on one feature of a situation and ignoring other relevant features.

Question 18

Irreversibility

Answer 18

Not understanding that an action can be reversed to the original state.

Question 19

Morality

Answer 19

General principals about what is right and wrong, including good and bad behavior.

Question 20

Schema/schemata (s) (development)

Answer 20

Mental representations of the world based on one’s own experiences.

Question 21

Assimilation

Answer 21

Incorporating new experiences into existing schemas.

Question 22

Accommodation

Answer 22

When a schema has to be changed to deal with a new experience.

Question 23

Adaptation

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Using assimilation and accommodation to make sense of the world. Adjusting to the world as they experience new things.

Question 24

Equilibrium

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When a child’s schemas can explain all that they experience; a state of mental balance.

Question 25

Subjective

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Based on personal opinion or feelings.

Question 26

Validity

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When the results of a study represent the situation they are testing (in real life).

Question 27

Mindset

Answer 27

A set of beliefs someone has that guides how someone responds to or interprets a situation.

Question 28

Ability

Answer 28

What someone can do, such as maths ability or ability to play tennis. Dweck suggested ability or ability can be seen as either fixed or innate or as able to be improved.

Question 29

Effort

Answer 29

When you try to do better using determination.

Question 30

Fixed mindset

Answer 30

Believing your abilities are fixed and unchangeable.

Question 31

Growth mindset

Answer 31

Believing practice and effort can improve your abilities.

Question 32

Working memory

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Has different parts for processing information coming in from our sensed, including visual and sound data, and also involves a decision-making part.

Question 33

Short-term memory

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Our initial memory store that is temporary and limited.

Question 34

Long-term memory

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A memory store that holds potentially limitless amounts of information for up to a lifetime.

Question 35

Rehearse

Answer 35

Repeat information over and over to make it stick.

Question 36

Motor skills

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Actions that involve muscles and brain processes, resulting in movement.

Question 37

Decentration

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Being able to separate yourself from the world and take different views of a situation, so not being egocentric.

Question 38

Social learning

Answer 38

Learning by observing and copying others.

Question 39

Self-regulation

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Explanation of behaviour that focus on innate factors (the things we are born with).

Question 40

Nurture

Answer 40

Explanations of behaviour that focus of environmental factors (the things that happen to us).

Question 41

Qualitative data

Answer 41

Data that is descriptive, not numbers, such as words or pictures.

Question 42

Reliability

Answer 42

The consistency of an outcome or result of an investigation (a measure).

Question 43

Framework

Answer 43

A basic understanding of ideas and facts that is used when making decisions.

Question 44

Person praise

Answer 44

Someone praises the individual rather than what they are doing.

Question 45

Process praise

Answer 45

Someone praises what is being done, not the individual.

Question 46

Entity theory/motivational theory

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A belief that behaviour or ability results from a person's nature.

Question 47

Incremental theory/motivational framework

Answer 47

A belief that effort drives behaviour and ability, which can change.

Question 48

Ecological validity

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The extent to which the findings still explain the bahaviour in real life situations.

Question 49

Ethics

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Moral principals about how someone should behave in a society.

Question 50

Debrief

Answer 50

After an investigation, participants are given full disclosure of the study.

Question 51

Generalisability

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The extent to which the results of a study represent the whole populations, not just the sample used.

Question 52

Morals

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Standards of right and wrong behaviour that can differ between cultures and can depend on the situation.

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Moral development

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Children's growing understanding about right and wrong.

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Heteronomous

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Rules put into place by others.

Question 55

Autonomous

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Rules can be decided by the individual person.

Question 56

Norms

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Society's values and customs, which a person in that society would be governed by.

Question 57

Nativist theories

Answer 57

Theories that view morality as part of human nature.