Psychology 2040A/B Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Prefrontal Cortex, Memory, Jean Piaget
20 Nov 2018
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Learning to walk: cognitive advances, understanding speech and may know a few words, problem solving, social advances, personality developments. Skills necessary for interaction: emerging identity, adult, powerful cognitive skills. Learning, memory, etc: complex social world, multi-faceted identity. Development or ontogeny: psychological development refers to systematic changes in the structure and function of perception, thinking, and behaviour, what forces affect this process, what gives this process of change its regularity, genes and maturation. Idea individual development is simply the timed expression of the genomes. Let"s look at the processes of evolution: bacteria, we can go back 3 billion years, and still find tiny organisms that resemble the beginnings of human life, ex. E. coli: single-cell organisms, over 1 billion years ago, ex. Amoeba: simple multi-cell organisms, 1 billion years ago, ex. Volvox: early invertebrates, 570 million years ago, massive explosion of various types of multicellular organisms at this time, ex.
