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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY - Coggle Diagram

- - - - glucose activity seen in PET scans means there is activity in brain where it is seen. no activity in PET->no activity in brain
    - - babies and toddlers of different ages
    - - motor cortex: voluntary actions
      - brain stem: involuntary actions
      - thalamus: relay station for sensory information
      - primary sensory cortex:determining characteristics such as location, intensity, and texture of the touch stimulus. after thalamus, sensation goes to psc before reaching cerebral cortex
      - newborn baby has 30% less glucose in the brain than an adult
    - - maximum neuroplasticity
      - critical period for learning
      - window of opportunity
  - - - impairments that were not compensated by a new family environment
    - - lateral temporal cortex: processing auditory information
      - amygdala: strong emotions
      - prefrontal cortex: personality,attention, emotional regulation
      - hippocampus: processes anxiety, susceptible to damage from stress and injury/disease (neurological or other)
      - ALL SUSCEPTIBLE TO STRESS
- - - - effect of proverty (social) on cognitive development
      - Steele and Aronson (1995) stereotype
        
        self-fulfilling prophecy, stereotype threat
        
        fear of confirming the stereotype lead to students underperform academically
        
        30 minute test, 3 conditions or tests:
        
        test was said to measure intellectual ability
        
        a problem solving task that has nothing to do with intellectual ability
        
        difficult test as posing a challenge and motivate
        
        Black people underperformed in the first condition compared to white students and the 2 and 3 condition on black students.
      - A.N. Leontyiev
        
        people of different ages were asked to memorize 15 worda
        
        pictures in cards
        
        one condition with cards and one without it
        
        pre-school children's memory was not aided by the cards and was the same in both condition
        
        adults did not need the cards and remembered the words due to their own internalized memorization strategies
        
        school children reached adult level of memorization with cards, without cards they were in a pre-school level
        
        with tools the children reached ZPD
  - - - Three mountain task 1956 Piaget and Inhelder
        
        three mountains, include house, snow
        
        what is the doll's perspective, given photos from which to choose the right one
        
        100 children 4-12
        
        4 yo didnt get it right, but 7-8 did
        
        were allowed to move
      - Hughes 1976
        
        30 kids, 3-5yo
        
        These were a doll representing a young boy and two policeman dolls, and they were to be placed around a set of intersecting lines.
        
        The four-year-olds were able to successfully hide the boy from the policemen 90% of the time.