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Galotti development definition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔predictable age related
changes in cognition over the course of infancy through adolescence
Cognitive development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔how people of varying stages
acquire, process, store and manipulate information
Perception - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔how we interpret sensory info
Attention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ability to allocate cognitive resources to certain
tasks
Memory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
,Cognition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔representation of knowledge, language,
thinking, reasoning, decision making, academic skills, social cognition,
informal education all in context
Curriculum of the hallway - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔what you learn outside of
school via social interaction
Brazilian Street Vendor Kids - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔were behind mathematically
in school but could make mentally make change for any purchase fast
Gesell Theory of Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔believed that children only
need to be provided with basics, genetics would unfold over time NATURE
John B. Watson Theory of Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔radical
behaviorist, you can train anyone into anything given the correct variables
NUTURE
Jean Piaget Theory of Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔we are not blank
slates, we're active explorers pre-wired to do so in a certain way based on
genetics
, Engel + Romano Biopsychosocial Model - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Both nature AND
nurture, model where person is organized with external and internal world
influencing them, each person is the unique interaction of both
Draw a Person Test (DAP) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔have a kid draw a person, ask
if it's boy or girl, ask to draw the other, then draw self, you can see how
child perceives themself + make predications about their future, 0.85
correlation between this and a battery
First Trimester Brain Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synapses develop in
spinal cord by 5th week, 6th week is movement, 10th week yawning, thumb
sucking, swallowing
Biopsychosocial Model in Fetal Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔first 6 mos
are strong genetic influence, last trimester the environmental variables are
stronger
Second Trimester Brain Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔reflexes, breathing,
swallowing, brainstem develops, so does HR, breathing, BP
Third Trimester Brain Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cerebral cortex
develops, aka conscious experience (which will continue to develop
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Galotti development definition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔predictable age related
changes in cognition over the course of infancy through adolescence
Cognitive development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔how people of varying stages
acquire, process, store and manipulate information
Perception - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔how we interpret sensory info
Attention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ability to allocate cognitive resources to certain
tasks
Memory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔encoding, storage, and retrieval of information
,Cognition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔representation of knowledge, language,
thinking, reasoning, decision making, academic skills, social cognition,
informal education all in context
Curriculum of the hallway - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔what you learn outside of
school via social interaction
Brazilian Street Vendor Kids - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔were behind mathematically
in school but could make mentally make change for any purchase fast
Gesell Theory of Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔believed that children only
need to be provided with basics, genetics would unfold over time NATURE
John B. Watson Theory of Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔radical
behaviorist, you can train anyone into anything given the correct variables
NUTURE
Jean Piaget Theory of Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔we are not blank
slates, we're active explorers pre-wired to do so in a certain way based on
genetics
, Engel + Romano Biopsychosocial Model - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Both nature AND
nurture, model where person is organized with external and internal world
influencing them, each person is the unique interaction of both
Draw a Person Test (DAP) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔have a kid draw a person, ask
if it's boy or girl, ask to draw the other, then draw self, you can see how
child perceives themself + make predications about their future, 0.85
correlation between this and a battery
First Trimester Brain Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔synapses develop in
spinal cord by 5th week, 6th week is movement, 10th week yawning, thumb
sucking, swallowing
Biopsychosocial Model in Fetal Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔first 6 mos
are strong genetic influence, last trimester the environmental variables are
stronger
Second Trimester Brain Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔reflexes, breathing,
swallowing, brainstem develops, so does HR, breathing, BP
Third Trimester Brain Development - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cerebral cortex
develops, aka conscious experience (which will continue to develop
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
