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- 1Organized body of ideasSchema
- 2Cognitive equalibriumAbility to understand your surroundings
- 3Cognitive disequilibriumno longer able to explain something that's happened
- 4Adaptationmoving from disequilibrium to equilibrium
- 5Assimilationincorporating additional information into an existing schema without changing it
- 6Accommodationchanging an existing schema to accommodate for new information
- 7Sensori-motor (age and characteristics)Age 0-2
Motor abilities
Object permanence
Representational thought - 8Preoperational (age and characteristics)Age 2-7
Language
Centration
Egocentric
Theory of Mind (age 3.5-4.5) - 9Concrete Operations (age and characteristics)Age 7-12
Conservation - 10Formal Operations (age and characteristics)Age 12+
Abstract thought
Think about possible outcomes - 11Between ages 6-12 the brains forms new connectionsProliferation
- 12During adolescence the brain begins to sever unused interneural connectionsPruning
- 13Nucleus AccumbensDirects motivation to seek rewards
- 14Adolescents have tons of this floating aroundDopamine
- 15Hormone that mediates sexual gratification and is inhibited by dopamineProlactin
- 16Ability to reason speedily Declines with ageFluid Intelligence
- 17Accumulated knowledge and skills Stays in tact with ageCrystalline Intelligence
- 18Anatomical blind spotWhere the optic nerve meets the eye
- 19HabituationThe decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated exposure to it
- 20Monocular Depth CuesLinear perspective
interposition
relative size
texture gradient
shadowing - 21Binocular Depth CuesRetinal disparity
Convergence - 22Emotional and physiological responsesClassical conditioning
- 23Used to maintain information for a short time and for acoustic rehearsalPhonological loop
- 24Visuospatial sketchpadused for maintaining and processing images
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