Flashcards in Exam 3 Deck (162)
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When does the brain grow in frontal areas?
From age 3-6
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What weight percent is the brain at age 6?
95% the adult weight
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When does the brain have another brain spurt after the age of 6?
Ages 17-20
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What are the characteristics of the right brain?
Holistic thought
Intuition
Creativity
Art and Music
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What are the characteristics of the left brain?
Analytic thought
Logic
Language
Science and Math
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When does brain lateralization begin to take place?
During the preschool years, preference for left/right is noticeable by age 3
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Who researched on cognitive growth?
Piaget
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What did Piaget determine about cognitive growth?
Conservation, centration, egocentrism
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What thought process was observed in cognitive growth?
Symbolic thought
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What are the types of information processing that occur over growth?
Sensory memory
Short term memory
Long term memory
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What is sensory memory?
Memory that is brief, a second or less
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What is Short-term memory?
Memory that is chunked, can remember 7+/-2
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What is Long-term memory?
Memory that may be infinite
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How does memory storage change?
The biggest change is speed, and the ability to hold more in short-term memory
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What is a child's memory at age 2-5?
Can encode and retrieve memories; remember without real understanding (nursery rhymes, phone numbers)
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How does the memory strategy Recall change over time?
Age 4: 2-4 items
Age 8: 7-9 items out of 12
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What memory strategy do young children not use?
Rehearsal
and strategies get more complex over time (organization and elaboration)
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What type of memory strategies do preschool children have?
Narrative memory
Generic memory
Episodic memory
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What is narrative memory?
Memory with language
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What is generic memory?
A script that produces a routine of a familiar, repeated event
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What is episodic memory?
A specific memory in time and place. Must be repeated or novel to remember
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What percent of children were toilet trained in 1957?
92%
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What percent of children at 18 months were toilet trained in 1999?
25% trained at 18 months
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What percent of children at 3 years were toilet trained in 1999?
Only 60%
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How does a child feel if toilet training takes a long time?
More delay means more feelings of inadequacy and more likelihood the child will be made fun of
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How does a child feel if toilet training occurs too early?
The child feels pressured and develops anxiety
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When is a child physically ready for toilet training?
The bladder is not ready for control until at least 18 months
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When is a child intellectually ready for toilet training?
The child must be able to understand direction
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When is a child emotionally ready for toilet training?
The child must be able to handle accidents, know how to undress, get to the bathroom on time
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