L9 Flashcards
Motor developments?
Gross motor skills become smoother and more coordinated
Fine motor skills duri middle and late childhood
What risk factors does obesity promote
Adult obesity
PulmonRy problems, diabetes, high blood pressure
Low SE, depression, exclusion
Being overweight actually impacts on brain
What defines learning disability?
Minimum IQ
Significant difficulty in a school related area
Exclusion of severe emotional disorders, second language, and or specific neurological deficits
Most common forms of learning disabilities?
Dyslexia and dyscaLculia
Possible causes of learning disability?
Genetics, enviro influences, problems in integrating info from multiple brain regions, difficulties in brain structures and functions,
interventions can help
Cognitive changes from 5-7?
Learns to transform info, conservation of numbers
Decentration and reversibility
Decline egocentrism
Classification
Seriation
Deducted reasoning
LTM increase
Transformations
Nativist/empiricist debate regarding concept of number
Nativist - children are born with core concept of number (puppet example)
Empiricist - children learn through experiences
(Diff cultures diff abilities, requires learning )
What is the development of expertise?
Helped by increase in LTM
Experts have extensive knowledge about a particular area
Stages of reading ?
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Ways that words are identified?
Phonological recoding - converting visual into verbal- use for hard words
Visually based retrieval - proceeding directly from the visual form to meaning
Growth in the brain?
Most change in prefrontal cortex - IMPROVEd attention reasoning and cog control
Increase in cortical thickness
Activation of some brain areas increase whilst others decrease. More focal areas. Synaptic pruning
