PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Basal Ganglia, Temporal Lobe, Neuroglia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Andra Smith

Document Summary

Neural changes should proceed these behavioral changes. Language onset is usually between 1 and 2 years of age. Language acquisition is largely complete by age 12. Dendrites and axon connection and the complexitiy of the connections that are allowing the growth. Preoperational: about 2 to 6 years (egocentrism) Concrete operational: about 7 to 11 years (math and more concrete. Formal operational: about 12+ years (abstract thinking occurs) Sporadic period of sudden growth that lasts for a finite time things occur) Identified five growth spurts in brain mass during development. First four coincide with onset of piaget"s stages, and the last occurs around 14 to 16 years. Likely due to growth of glial cells and synapses. Children can learn a concurrent-discrimination task, believed to depend on the basal ganglia, around 12 months. Children can learn a nonmatching-to-sample task, believed to depend on the temporal lobe, around 18 months.