PSY 654 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: John Stuart Mill, Associationism, Cerebral Cortex
21 Jul 2015
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Imitation: repetitions provide a way for infants to learn new behaviours and also to strengthen their bond with those they imitate. Statistical learning: extracting sequential patterns from input. In their first year, infants are capable of detecting such patterns both in auditory input such as tone sequences or linguistic sounds. Does development progress through stages: the view development as stage like was in part inspired by the ideas of charles darwin. How do individuals differ: recognizing that not all children would benefit from the same instruction, binet and. Simon developed a test to identify kids who would have difficulty learning from the standard classroom procedures. Intelligence tests distinguish between a child"s chronological age (ca) and the childs mental age (ma) Iq = mental age divided by chronological age x100. Brain can be divided in 2 parts: subcortical structures and the cortex. Subcortical structures are areas atop the spinal cord like thalamus, medulla and pons.
