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Science Inquiry - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Gross motor skills: movements requiring the whole body muscles to acheive basic outcomes.
      - Fine motor skills: use of smaller muscles to achieve complex outcomes.
  - - - Believed that children experience a series of developmental stages from childhood through to adolescence.
      - At each of these stages, children became able to reason in a qualitatively different & advanced way.
      - Considered that we build an understanding on the world and develop thinking skills through active interaction with the environment
    - - Sensorimotor (0-2): Coordination & movement. Have no OBJECT PERMANENCY - The ability to recognise objects to not cease to exist even when they are not sensed.
      - Preoperational (2-7): a child is EGOCENTRIC - The inability to differentiate between self and others. Only perceive the world in their pov.
      - Concrete operational (7-11): Achieve CONSERVATION - the concept that weight, mass and volume of matter remain unchanged even when the shape or appearance of an object changes.
      - Formal operational (11+): Abstract thinking and logical thinking.
- - - - Consists of cable nerve fibres stretching from the base of the brain to the lower back.
      - Transmits sensory information from the brain to the PNS.
      - Transmits motor messages from brain to PNS.
      - Sensory information travels up from the spinal cord to the brain and motor messages come from the brain to the muscles.
      - Function is to process information.
    - - Transmits sensory information to the CNS and transmits motor messages from the brain to the rest of the body.
      - Afferent neurons: transmits information from the senses to the CNS for processing.
      - Efferent neurons: transmits actions from the CNS to the muscles for action.
      - Somatic Nervous System (SNS): The division of the PNS that transmits sensory information received from receptor cells inwards towards the CNS, and motor messages from the CNS to the body's voluntary skeletal muscle.
        
        Processes sensory information and monitors bodily functions eg voluntary skeletal muscle movement.
      - Autonomic Nervous System (ANS): The division of the PNS that transmits motor messages from the brain to the body's internal organs and glands.
        
        Results in involuntary activity of internal organs and glands, and transmits messages back to the brain about the activity level of these organs and glands.
        
        Regulates involuntary responses, functions of internal organs eg respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, digestion, sweating.
        
        Parasympathetic Nervous System
        
        Maintains an energy level appropriate for normal bodily functions.
        
        Physically calms body down after high arousal by reversing changes in bodily functioning caused by the domination of the sympathetic nervous system.
        
        Sympathetic Nervous System
        
        Alters the activity level of internal muscles, organs and glands to physically prepare the body for increased activity during the times of high emotional or physical arousal.