PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lawrence Kohlberg, Abstraction, Cell Growth

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: T B D

Document Summary

Gaze longer at a drawing of face-like image preference for human faces. Sense of touch is the most well developed. Hearing is functional but takes a while to reach its full potential. Cones will take about another 6 months to fully develop: physical (motor) development, cognitive development, psychosocial development, moral development. Maturation: biological growth process that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. As the nervous system matures, more complicated skills develop. Relatively minimal physical changes but signs of aging are already beginning. As people grow older their immune systems also weaken. With aging, brain regions important to memory begin to atrophy. Cognitive: mental activities related to thinking, knowing, remember, and communicating. *jean piaget-puzzled by the way kids process information, studied wrong answers kids would give and why they gave that answer instead of the right one. Children"s thinking changes qualitatively with age and differs from the way adults think.