Early Brain Development
What is an example of an involunatry response?
Sneezing, breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, etc.
What is object permanence?
Knowing that something exists even if it is out of sight.
What is rehearsal?
Repeating information over and over to make it stick
How many children participated in the Three Mountains Task?
100 children
Does correlation mean causation?
NO!
What are the first 3 parts of the brain to develop?
What is the age range for the pre-operational stage?
2-7 years old
What did Willingham think needed to come before mastery of a skill?
What is person praise?
Someone praises the individual rather than what they are doing
What is an unstructured interview?
A research method in which a researcher has a free-flowing conversation around a particular topic with a respondent
When does the cerebellum begin to develop?
At about 6 weeks in foetal development
What is a schema?
mental representations of the world based on one's own experiences.
What is short-term memory?
Our initial memory store that is temporary and limited
What did Piaget and Inhelder conclude from their study?
What does a positive correlation mean?
As one thing increases, the other also increases.
What does the medulla oblongata control?
Involuntary responses
What is conservation?
Understanding that certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container, shape, or apparent size.
What is working memory?
Has different parts for processing information coming in from our senses, including visual and sound data and also involves a decision-making part
What type of praise were boys most likely to receive in Gunderson et al. (2013)?
Process praise
What is inter-rater reliability?
Inter-rater reliability is a measure of the consistency and agreement between two or more raters or observers in their assessments
What does the cerebellum control?
Changing a schema to deal with a new experience is called...
accommodation
What is social learning?
learning by observing and copying others
What was the main conclusion from Gunderson et al. (2013)?
There is a clear relationship between parents' use of process praise and a child's later use of an incremental motivational framework (belief that effort drives behaviour and ability, which can change).
What is a weakness of interviews as a research method?
Very prone to bias