DEP 2004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Synaptic Pruning, Handedness, Irreversible Process

• School: UCF
• Department: Developmental Psychology
• Course: DEP 2004
• Professor: Daniel Mcconnell

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Chapter 5 notes: brain growth, synaptic pruning has slowed, neuro(cid:374)s that fire together (cid:449)ire together (cid:894)he(cid:271)(cid:271)"s la(cid:449)(cid:895, speed of processing, myelination, brain organization. Increased development of corpus callosum: handedness, gradual development. We form lots of synapse more than we actually need. The more we have the synapse that more they will grow in strength: synapse that are not being used are pruned away. Myelin speeds up neural transmission: but we need to delay this because it makes it harder for the brain to grow, want to myelinate when we have develop around 3. Specific parts of the brain have specific functions: the parts of the brain also take up more roles, brain changes until about 25. Left handers- have a more symmetric hemisphere in the brain: thinking in early childhood, symbolic thinking, 1st word, drawing, pretend play, piaget"s 2nd stage: pre-operational thinking, lack of operations, centration, e. g. family relationships, appearance as reality, e. g.