Test Two Flashcards
What are the domains of development (6)
- cognitive
- personality
- moral
- social
- sexual
- physiological
What facilities puberty?
The endocrine system
What initiates puberty
Hypothalamus
What signals puberty to start
Leptin
What are gametes
Eggs and sperm
What are gonads
Testicles/Androgens and Ovaries/Estrogens
What is cognitive development
Changes over time and how people think how they solve problems and how their capacities for memory and attention change
Who is most closely associated with cognitive development
Jean PiaGet / stage to stage stops at 18
What is a schema
Structures for organizing and interpreting information
Assimilation
New information is altered to fit within an existing scheme
Accomodation
Scheme is changed, or a new one is added to adapt to new info
Piaget Their
(0-2) Sensorimotor stage
(2-7) preoperational stage
(7-11) concrete operations
(11-20ish) formal operations
What comes with formal operations
- abstract thinking
- metacognition
- complex thinking
Dialectical Thought (Bassches)
Type of thinking that develops in emerging adulthood/ understanding the world is a very gray place
Information Processing Theory
This theory sees cognitive development as continuous rather than in steps and discontinuous focuses more on how thinking works