Quiz 1 Flashcards
What are the four types of development
- Physical development
- Personal development
- Social development
- Cognitive development
Physical development
Changs in the body and maturation
Personal development
Changes in an individual’s personality what they start liking
Social development
Changes in the way an individual interacts with others and relates with them
Cognitive development
Changes in the way of thinking
Growth
Variety of physical aspects of development
Learning
Change in behaviour attitudes due to experiences
Maturation
Process of normal physical an psychological development, the individual becomes independent due to experiences
Development
Growth, maturation, and learning processes happening from birth to maturity
Sensitive periods
When children are especially responsive to certain experiences. Like learning a second language after 5 years old there would not be an accent.
Frontal lobe
Body movement and coordination
Parietal lobe
Body sensation
Temporal lobe
Auditory cortex
Occipital lobe
Visual cortex
Neurons
Communication mechanism in the Brain
Cerebral cortex
Responsible of problem solving and language, it’s the lat part of the brain to develop
Lateralization
Specialization of the two hemispheres of the brain:
- Left side major in language processing
- right side spatial-visual and emotional regulation
The job of Neurons
Each Neuron includes dendrites that bring in messages and an axon sends out messages, this is a single Neuron but each of them is in a network with many others
Plasticity (adaptability)
Young children’s brains show more plasticity, their brains are not as lateralized as in older children or adults
Adolescent development and the brain
- Adolescents brain it’s not fully developed
- Adolescents become more responsive to pleasure seeking and emotional stimulation as their lambic system matures
- Their less-mature prefrontal lob may not be equipped to sense risk
You only us 10% of your brain (truth or false)
False you use 100%
What can interfere in learning
Anxiety and stress can interfere with learning while interest and curiosity can support learning
Jean Piaget: Cognitive Development.
Piaget argued that children’s cognitive development occurs in stages. Specifically, he posited that as children’s thinking develops from one stage to the next, their behavior also changes, reflecting these cognitive developments.
Cognitive development influences are:
- Maturation
- Environment (activity)
- Social Transmission (social experiences)
Maturation
Biological changes
Environment (Activity)
Act on environment
Social transmission (social Experiences)
Learning from others
Basic tendencies in thinking of cognitive development are:
- Organization
- Adaptation
- Equilibrium
- Disequilibrium
Organization
- People are born with the ability of organize thinking into structures that provide our understanding an interacting with the world. - Piaget called these structure schemes, he believed these were building blocks of thinking.
Adaptation
- People have the ability to adapt to their environment.
- assimilation occurs hen people use existing schemes to make sense of new phenomena.
- accommodation occurs when people change existing schemes to respond to a new situation
Equilibrium
- Piaget believed in equilibration, the process of searching for a balance between organizing, assimilating, and accommodating.
- if we apply a scheme to a situation and it works, we have equilibrium.
Disequilibrium
If we apply scheme to a situation and it works, we have equilibrium and if it does not work, we experience disequilibrium.
Piaget’s Four stages of cognitive development are:
- Sensorimotor
- Preoperational
- Concrete operations
- Formal operation
Sensorimotor (0-2 years)
Starting of imitations, memory, and thoughts. They start recognizing object permanence, and beginning of goal-directed actions.
Preoperational (2-7 years)
Language acquisition and use, symbolic thinking, logical reasoning and egocentric.
Concrete operations (7-11 years)
Solving logical problems through manipulation, laws of conversation, and understanding reversibility.