Memorable Moments
DO NOT SHAKE A BABY STEPHANIE
What was Mr Reid's response to Stephanie asking about baby shaking?
Moodiness, lack of concentration, loss of motor coordination, difficulty remembering.
What are the effects of sleep deprivation?
A form of brain scan that can provide an image of the brain at work.
What is a functional imaging technique?
Infants will choose a warm, oxytocin inducing body over a body that provides survival needs.
What were the findings of Harlow?
An area of the brain responsible for executive function and motor movement
What is the frontal lobe?
The Apparently Kid
What video did Mr Reid keep watching during class?
A part of sleep in which body temperature is not regulated and the brain becomes active. This stage is identified by the presence of dreams.
What is REM?
A procedure involving the cutting and removal of different regions of the brain to observe the effect it has on an organism.
What is ablation?
Where an unused skill is lost due to the neural pathways being destroyed.
What is synaptic pruning?
Made up of sensory and motor neurons and receives/transmits sensation and motor commands to the spine/relevant body regions.
What is the PNS?
A song used by Mr Reid to help semantically encode the stages of development into his student's memory. It works off the notion that strong emotions lead to stronger memory formation.
What is the Piaget rap?
Uses the movements of the eye to measure changes in consciousness.
What is an EOG?
What is phrenology
A period of life in which development MUST occur for an individual to develop into a functioning human.
What is a critical period?
In the left frontal lobe and is responsible for the production of speech.
What is Broca's area?
Don't waste my time.
What did Mr Reid say during his crash-out to his 11 psychology class?
A process that the body undergoes lasting exactly 24 hours.
What is the circadian rhythm?
Your mind is your body. Seen through countless brain injuries and the subsequent effect it had on the patient, it was concluded by Claudius Galen that the mind and body are one and the same.
What is the materialist approach?
An infant would be open to exploring it's surroundings, become anxious when their mother leaves, hesitant to interact with a stranger, then consolable when their mother returns.
What is Type B attachment?
Uses electrodes placed on the brain to measure the frequency of electricity produced by different regions of the brain.
What is an EEG?
Egg
What does Mr Reid call his students?
Filters out unimportant information to enable the mind to focus on a specific task/stimulus.
What is selective attention?
Your mind and body are separate. Your brain (body) can lie to you (mind) about anything except the existence of thought. Because it is thought that your body can lie to your mind, they are seen as two separate entities. Cogito Ergo Sum (Rene Descartes).
What is the dualistic approach?
A stage in development in which an individual is able to understand analogies that are relevant to the world around them, however, cannot comprehend abstract analogies/thoughts.
What is the concrete operational stage?
A coat of fat that enhances the strength of the axon structure and allows for faster transmission of electric signals through the neuron.
What is the myelin sheath?