Unit 1 test Flashcards
Personality, behavior, emotions
Judgment, planning, problem solving
Speech: speaking and writing
Body movement
Intelligence, concentration, self awareness
Frontal Lobe
Interprets sense of touch, pain, temperature
Interprets signals from vision, hearing, motor, sensory and memory
Spatial and visual perception
Coordinating hand, arm, and eye motions
Interprets language, words
Vital for sensory perception and integration, including the management of taste, hearing, sight, touch, and smell.
Parietal Lobe
Interpreting visual stimuli and information
PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX
Receives and interprets information from the retinas of the eyes.
Occipital Lobe
Understanding language
Memory
Hearing
Sequencing and organization
Temporal Lobe
Controls muscular coordination, balance, and posture
Located at the Back of the skull
Cerebellum
acts as a relay center connecting the cerebrum and cerebellum to the spinal cord.
It performs many automatic functions such as:
breathing
heart rate
body temperature,
wake and sleep cycles
digestion
Brain stem
(T/F) Human development is a process that happens very quickly.
False
(T/F) Human development takes place in order. ex. you crawl before you walk
True
(T/F) Physical Development happens only during adulthood and older adulthood.
False
(T/F) Brain development happens all at once.
False
Nature vs. Nurture
Nature- Genetics
Nurture- environment influences
(T/F) Does the family affect the social influence on a child’s early development?
True
(T/F) Social media has positive and negative outcomes for children and teens.
True
(T/F) Nutrition is important for physical development in children and adults
True
The change in social relationships, feelings, social skills, self-esteem, gender identity, and ways of coping with situations.
socio-emotional development
Small muscle movements such as typing or drawing.
Fine motor skills
Actions or processes that involve thinking and knowing such as perceiving, sensing, organizing, memorizing, recalling, reasoning, problem-solving, imagining.
Cognition
The changes in size, body composition, chemical make-up, and height.
Physical Development
Walking to class or playing sports
gross motor skills
The changes in how people think and process.
cognitive development
skipping, jumping rope, running
example of Physical development
problem solving, decision making, memory, studying
example of cognitive development
babies learn to trust and depend on their caregivers.
Example of socio-emotional Development
He identified 3 different levels of thinking that people go through in making moral decisions (right vs. wrong): Pre-conventional, Conventional, and Post-conventional.
Lawrence Kohlberg theory
He believed young children base their thinking on what they know. He describes the 4 stages as: Sensorimotor Preoperational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operational.
Jean Piaget
Known for his 8-stage theory of Psychosocial Development.
Erik Erikson
He believed that cognitive development does not just happen, but occurs because humans interact with other people, not just objects. He focused on the “zone of proximal development”.
Lev Vygotsky
