PSY 2301 Final: final exam notes - 2301.docx
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3 perspectives on brain development as brain develops neurons become more intricately connected, increasing complex underlies increasing complex behaviour observations enable neuroscientists to study relation btwn brain and behaviour development from 3 perspectives: structural development can be studied and correlated w the emergence of behaviour, behaviour development can be analyzed and predictions made about what underlying. Stages of brain development: cell birth (neurogenesis; gliogenesis, cell migration, cell differentiation, cell maturation (dendrite and axon growth, synaptogenesis (formation of synapses, cell death and synaptic pruning, myelogenesis (formation of myelin) Four major stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor period, birth 18/24 months of age, babies learn to differentiate themselves from external world, realize object permanence, stranger anxiety, preoperational period, 2 6yrs of age, children gain ability to form mental representations of things in their world and to represent those things in words and drawings, egocentrism, pretend play, language development, concrete operations, 7 11yrs, children mentally manipulate ideas about material (concrete) things like volumes, liquids,
