TAL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Lev Vygotsky, Railways Act 1921, Neurogenesis

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Course: TAL 103
• Professor: Lipsky

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Changes appear in orderly ways & remain for a long period of time. General principles of development: people develop @ different rates, development is relatively orderly. Ranges in rapidity of development & progress addition before multiplication: development takes place gradually. Most stages of development must come before others (sitting before walking, Cerebral cortex: outer 1/8th inch covering of the brain (wrinkly matter, last area to develop, considered most susceptible to environmental influences, lateralization: specialization of both brain hemispheres, event-related potential (erp): measurements of electrical activity in the brain. The older you are, the more info you"ve been exposed to (sophisticating schemas) Piaget: 4 factors: biological maturation, activity, social experiences, equilibration, maturation, activity, social transmission information (throwing in sports) Schemas affected by activities you are involved in. Acting on the environment, exploring, testing, observing, then organizing. Tendencies in thinking: all species inherit 2 basic tendencies/ invariant functions , organization, adaptation.