PSYC 3800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Lev Vygotsky, Pragmatics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3800
• Professor: Jen Lasenby- Lessard

Document Summary

A definition of development: development refers to certain changes that occur in human beings between conception and death, changes that appear in orderly ways and remain for a reasonably long period of time, the changes, at least those that occur early in life, are generally assumed to be for the better and to result in behaviour that is more adaptive, more organized, more effective, and more complex. The brain and cognitive development: cerebellum corindates balance and smooth, skilled movements, learning, hippocampus recalling new information and recent experiences, amygdala directions emotions, thalamus learning new information, especially verbal, reticular formation attention and arousal, corpus callosum move information from one side of the brain to the othe, cerebral cortex complex problem solving and language, the cortex is the last part of the brain to develop, so it is believed to be more susceptible to environmental influences than other areas of the brain.