Parts of the Brain
What is the function of the pons?
Helps coordinate movement
What is formal operational?
Th Fourth stage of Piaget's stages of cognitive development.
-12 years and over
-understand abstract concepts
-aqquired hypothetical reasoning
explicit memory
Info we consciously recall using effor
Margaret FLow Washburn
first woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology
sensation
the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
What is the function of the thalamus?
Sensory control center (recieves all senses but small)
What is the properational stage?
Second stage in Piaget's stages of cognitive development
- 2 to 7 years old
-can think logically
-development of language
Implicit memory
Info and skills we learn without being aware of it
William James
published the Principles of Psychology, the science's first textbook
perception
process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objectives and event
What's the function of the cerebellum?
Processes sensory input, coordonating movement output and balance, and enables nonverbal learninf and memory.
The third step of piaget's stages of cognitive development
- 7 to 11 years old
- understands conservation
- understands reversibility
Sensory memory
Immediate recording of sensory information in the memory system.
Mary Whiton Calkins
inattention blindness
failing to notice changes in the environment; spotlight
What is the purpose of the amygdala?
Makes you angry or scared
Autonomy vs. Shame
the second stage of erikson's stages of psychosocial development
Schemas
Mental representations of how we expect the world to be
G. Stanley Hall
Student of William James who pioneered the study of child development and was the first president of the APA
absolute threshold
the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time; varies with age
What is the cerebral cortex?
The surface layer of interconnected neural cells
The first stage in Piaget's stage of cognitive development
-0 to 2 years old
- schemas start to develop
mnemonic devices
memory aids that help organize information for encoding
Max Wertheimer
Gestalt psychologist who argued against dividing human thought and behavior into discrete structures
subliminal
below a person's absolute threshold for conscious awareness