Week 13

Question 1

What does thinking involve?

Answer 1

problem solving, reasoning, creating, conceptualizing, categorizing, remembering, planning

Question 2

What is stage theory?

Answer 2

children progress through qualitatively different stages of development

Question 3

What is sociocultural theory?

Answer 3

How other people, attitudes, beliefs and the surrounding culture influences a child’s development

Question 4

What is information process theory?

Answer 4

the mental processes that produce thinking at any one time, growth in thinking

Question 5

What is a quantitative change?

Answer 5

gradual, incremental

Question 6

What is a qualitative change?

Answer 6

Large, fundamental

Question 7

What is the sensoritmotor stage?

Answer 7

A child’s thinking is realized through their perceptions of the world and physical interactions

Question 8

What is the preoperational stage?

Answer 8

children can represent objects through drawing and language

Question 9

What is the concrete operations stage?

Answer 9

children can start to think logically but not systematically

Question 10

What is the formal operations stage?

Answer 10

Children develop the reasoning power of adults, does not happen without exposure to education

Question 11

Why is Piaget’s theory not widely accepted?

Answer 11

Cognitive development is considered more continuous than these stages

Question 12

What is phonemic awareness?

Answer 12

Awareness of the component sounds within words

Question 13

What part of the brain develops throughout adolescence?

Answer 13

Prefrontal cortex

Question 14

What is phenotypic heterogeneity?

Answer 14

There is a high degree of variability in the genes underlying a condition

Question 15

What is the diagnostic criteria for autism?

Answer 15

Difficulty in social interactions, repetitive or restricted interests, cognition and behaviours, involves parental report and observation

Question 16

How does impairment in social function present?

Answer 16

Eye contact, give and take of group conversations, social information processing

Question 17

What is social perception?

Answer 17

The initial stages in the processing of information that culminates in the accurate analysis of the dispositions and intentions of others

Question 18

What is the social brain?

Answer 18

A set of interconnected, neuroanatomical structures that process social information

Question 19

What does the amygdala do?

Answer 19

Recognize the emotional states of others, regulate and experience own emotions

Question 20

What does the orbital frontal cortex do?

Answer 20

Produces the ‘reward’ feeling that have around other people

Question 21

What does the fusion gyrus do?

Answer 21

Detects faces and aids in facial recognition

Question 22

What does the posterior superior temporal suclus do?

Answer 22

Recognizes biological motion such as eye and hand movements, predicts the intentions of others

Question 23

How does an MRI help in autism?

Answer 23

measures the level of oxygen in the brain, as neurons in specific regions work harder they require more oxygen

Question 24

How does an ERP help in autism?

Answer 24

Provides direct measurements of the firing groups of neurons when brain activity occurs

Question 25

At what age do ASD children begin to show symptoms?

Answer 25

6-12 months reduced activity in the fusiform gyro