425911
Description
Flashcards by Grace Feakes, updated more than 1 year ago
|
Created by Grace Feakes
over 10 years ago
|
|
| Question | Answer |
| Teratogens | Environmental factors disrupting healthy neural development |
| Examples of teratogens | Cigarette smoke, lead, alcohol |
| Fetal alcohol syndrome | pattern of mental and physical defects that can develop in a fetus, associated with high levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy |
| True or false: Exploring and interacting objects spurs neural growth | True |
| Name 2 of a childs first reflexes | Grasp reflex, rooting reflex(suck when something brushes lips) |
| Piaget's theory is also known as... | Developmental stage theory |
| What was Piaget's theory? | Child relies on different type of thinking, once the child has developed through the stages of intellectual growth they can think like adults |
| The process which facilitates changes in neural structure by reducing the overall number of neurons and synapses | Pruning |
| During youth, the brain is at its____dense. | Most |
| At the sensorimotor stage (birth-2 years)... | Infants have no object permanence i.e. when object isn't in sight they don't think it exists anymore |
| At the preoperational stage (2-7 years) | Children have preliminary understanding of physical world |
| Characteristics of concrete operational stage (7-11 years) | Moral thought is confined to real life problems |
| Characteristics of formal operational stage (12 years+) | Children can solve non-physical problems and apply abstract thinking |
| Young children have____schemes than older children. | Fewer |
| Organization of schemes | Combining existing schemes into new/complex ones |
| Schemes | Mental patterns of interaction with the world and its ideas |
| Which 2 processes does the extending of schemes depend on | Assimilation and accommodation |
| Assimilation | Using mental schemes already formed to interpret the environment |
| Accommodation | Process by which schemes accommodate to the child's changing environment |
| Equilibrium | Harmony between one's schemes and one's existence |
Want to create your own Flashcards for free with GoConqr? Learn more.