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Question 1

What is critical periods?

Question 2

What is sensitive periods?

Question 3

What is brain plasticity?

Question 4

what is maturation?

Question 5

what is social factors of psych development?

Answer 5

social media, interpersonal relationships, social stressors

Question 6

what’s biological factors of psych development?

Answer 6

genes, age, gender

Question 7

what’s psychological factors of psych development?

Answer 7

emotions, coping skills,

Question 8

what other development contributes to psychological development?

Answer 8

emotional, social, physical, cognitive

Question 9

What’s Piagets theory of cognitive development?

Answer 9

Piaget believed all children pass through 4 distinct stages of intellectual development. Each stage has key accomplishments that need to be achieved to pass to next stage. Thinking gets more sophisticated when passing through stages. His ideas mostly come from observing his children as they solved various though problems.

Question 10

What are the 4 stages of Piagets theory of cognitive development? Small Pigs Can Fly

Answer 10

Sensorimotor stage (0-2), Preoperational stage (2-7), Concrete operational stage (7-12), Formal operational stage (12+).

Question 11

What happens in Sensorimotor stage?

Answer 11

• first 2yrs child’s intellectual development is mostly non- verbal
• rely heavily on senses as they explore environment and develop an understanding of the world
• gradually learn relationship between their actions and their external world
• learn they can manipulate objects and produce effects

Question 12

What are the key accomplishments for Sensorimotor stage?

Answer 12

object permanence - understanding that objects still exist when not in sight
goal directed behaviors - child begins to work out various ways to get what they want

Question 13

What happens in Preoperational stage?

Answer 13

• child begins to think symbolically and use language
• children remember, pretend, imagine
• child’s thinking is intuitive (makes no logic or reasoning)

Question 14

What are the key accomplishments in the Preoperational stage?

Answer 14

Egocentrism: - child has difficulty seeing things from other perspectives
- assumes everyone know, hear, see what they know, hear see,
- assumes they see you so you see them
- at end of stage thinking starts to be decentered as they start to take on others perspectives
Symbolic thinking: begins to use symbols (gestures, drawing, words that represent something), enables imagination to expand, can start to group similar things together
Animism: believed all objects, animals, things are living, feeling, emotions, intentions
Centration: focusing on only one feature or characteristic of object and excluding others
Reversibility: ability to follow a line of reasoning back to starting point e.g. water, ice, water