Unit 3 - Development and learning

Cuz i cant remember shit

Development psychology

• how people grow and change throughout their life through cognitive changes, behaviroal and psychological

Cohort

group of people with same characteristics usually people in the same age range.

things that affect a fetus growth

Tetragens - alcohol, smoking, drugs and envrionmental toxins

Maternal illness

Fetal alcohol syndrome - affects cognitive, physical and behavioral problems

Jean piaget - Schemas

• are mental framworks that is used to understand and organize information

• assimilation - adds info to schema doesnt alter and new info into existing schema

• accommodation - adds info to schema does alter doesnt fit in schema so u change it happens later in child devleopment

Jean piaget cognitive developments btw discontinuous change

Sensorimotor stage -

Pre operational stage -

concrete operational -

formal operational

Sensorimotor stage - 0-2

learn through touching, hearing and seeing by grabbing pushing or throwing items

Object permanence - object exist even when out of sight

Pre operational stage - 2 to 7

symbolic learning, language development and pretend play

hard understanding conservation and reversibility

very egocentric

theory of mind - understand other peoples emotions, feelings

concrete operational - about 6 to 7 and 12

more logical and mental operations

able to do seriation and classification - seriation is arranging in ascending or descending order and classification if grouping by color or other characteristic

formal operational -12+

think abstract and even more better at logical thinking

Vygotsky - children are social learners

sociocultural theory- ususing interactions with people to learn

• Scaffolding - supporting and providing help to make kids understand

• Zone of proximal development - it is the part of a circle where the kids cant understand smth and its hard to learn on their own and seeking help and having others teach or help them can make it easier to learn

Phonme
morphem

semantics

grammer

syntax

• smallest unit of sound

• smallest unit of meaning prefix or suffix -structure of word

• meaning behind word, interrupting meaning.

• rules for language

• sentence structure and how to form words