Key terms

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Development

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How we change and mature across our lifetimes

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Pre-natal

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From conception until birth

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Childhood

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From birth until the age of twelve

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Adolescence

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From age thirteen to nineteen years

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Adulthood

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From twenty years until death

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Nervous system

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A network of nerve cells and fibres that transmits impulses between parts of the body. The body’s control centre

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Neuron

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A cell that transmits nerve impulses to send messages between the brain and other parts of the body

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Synapse

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The gap between two neurons

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Receptors

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Parts of the neuron that accept the neurotransmitter from another neuron. They help transmit the message between the neurons.

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Foeutus

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The name given to the developing baby during pregnancy, when it has reached eight weeks after conception (and all the major structures have been formed) until

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Intelligence

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Our ability and potential to learn, think and problem solve

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IQ Test

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Intelligence Quotient (designed to measure people’s intelligence

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Cognitive development

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How our thought processes change over time throughout childhood. This includes language, memory and perception

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Invariant

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Something that does not change or vary

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Universal

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The same for everyone

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Assimilation

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New information is incorporated into an existing schema

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Accomodation

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New information is used to either alter an existing scheme or create a new one

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Object permanence

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The idea that something still exists, even if it is hidden from view

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Animism

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Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object

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Egocentrism

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When a child can only view the world from their point of view and assumes everyone has the same views as them

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Reversibility

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The ability to be able to think about things in reverse order

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Conservation

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The ability to understand that even though something might change it’s shape or form, it’s volume, mass or length, remain the same.

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Decentration

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The ability to be able to focus on more than one aspect of a situation. For example, putting individual letters together to make a word

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Seriation

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The ability to be able to put things in rank order

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Linguistic humour

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Playing with words to create jokes or humour

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Mindset

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How a person thinks or their attitudes

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Fixed mindset

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Where people think their intelligence is innate and cannot be changed

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Growth mindset

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Where people think that they can develop their intelligence over time

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Innate

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Something you are born with

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Effort

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Determined attempt to do something

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Praise

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Expressing approval of something

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Learning styles

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The theory that students have different ways of learning and that they would learn better if they were taught in the style that suits them.

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Myth

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A widely held but false belief

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Key stages

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Age related stages of development used to organise the education of children

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Readiness

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The idea that children are not ready to learn certain things until they have reached a particular stage of cognitive development

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VARK

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Visual, Audio, Reading, Kinaesthetic

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Meaning for learning

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The idea that students should understand the meaning of what they are being taught, rather than just being drilled information

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Alternate hypothesis

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A statement that predicts a difference or correlation in results

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Null hypothesis

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A statement that predicts no difference or correlation in results

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prefrontal cortex

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The part of the brain that is located behind the forehead and is associated with making moral decisions

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Symbolic play

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Where children play ‘make believe’ where a coat might be a superhero cape, for example.

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Active learning

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the idea that children should not just be sat at a desk and given information but should be actively engaging with their environment to learn from it.