PSY 1102 Study Guide - Mental Model, Object Permanence, Jean Piaget

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Infancy & childhood: physical development, maturation: genetically driven process; genes determine exact sequence of development in certain areas or skills (e. g. language centres, motor development, brain development: billions of neurons at birth, yet brain immature. Size of adult brain at birth by age 2, 75% size adult brain by age 6, 9/10 size adult brain. Pruning: any synapse that is not used will die off; helps rapid growth period brain work better: maturation and memory, childhood amnesia: as adults, we can"t remember the first. 3 years of life because centres in brain responsible for long- term memory storage not matured yet. Motor development: study in book: cognition: refers to the higher order mental processed used to understand and, cognitive development adapt to the world. Children are active learners: inner motivation to explore world, actively draw own conclusions. Can not skip steps: remember: according to piaget criticized, some things proven wrong.