Exam 2 Flashcards
When does the brain grow to 90% of adult size?
Age 2-6
Overabundance of synaptic connection occurs when?
Age 2-6
Piaget’s Sensorimotor phase
0-2 years
Explores through sensory and motor contact
Piaget’s Preoperational phase
2-6 years Uses words and objects to represent objects - Not logical - Egocentric - Can pretend
Piaget’s Concrete Operational phase
7-12 years
- Can think logically about concrete objects
- Can understand conversation
Piaget’s Formal Operational phase
12+
Can reason abstractly and think hypothetically
Frontal lobe function?
Planning and organization
Left hemisphere helps develop?
Language skills
- left/right handedness
Piaget’s Psychological Structure Theory:
Organized ways of making sense of experience
Adaptation Scheme
Building schemes through directly interacting with environment
Assimilation Scheme
Bringing new information into previously existing schemas
Accommodation Scheme
Adjusting old schemes and creating new schemes to fit environment
Object Permanence (Piaget’s sensorimotor)
When an object appears, it is still there
Behaviorist Language Theory
Learned through operant conditioning and imitation
Nativist Language Theory
Inborn language Acquisition device (LAD) prepares babies to learn from parents
Interactionist Language Theory
Inner capacities + environment work together (social context)
Broca’s Area
Grammar processing and language production
Wernicke’s Area
Word comprehension and meaning