Brain Development
The middle section of the brain forming part of the central nervous system.
Midbrain
This research method uses a mix of pre-set questions and unprepared questions asked to a respondent/participant.
Semi-structured interview
Unable to see the world from any other viewpoint but one's own.
Egocentrism
What is symbolic play?
Play using objects and ideas to represent other objects and ideas.
Mental representations of the world based on one's own experiences.
Schema
The number of neural connections from birth to 3 years old.
700-1000 new connections formed every second
Questions with no fixed response.
Open-ended questions
Knowing something exists even if it is out of sight.
Object permanence
General principles about what is right and wrong, including good and bad behaviour.
Morality
Incorporating new experiences into existing schemas.
Assimilation
Connects the upper brain to the spinal cord and controls automatic responses.
Medulla oblongata
During an interview, a respondent may answer a question in a way that is deemed socially acceptable.
Social desirability bias
When does the formal operational stage start?
12+ years
A child who realises that changing how something looks does not change its volume, size or weight has achieved what?
Conservation
Piaget believed that children develop through adjusting to the world as they experience new things. What is this called?
Adaptation
This part of the brain is involved in responses such as fear, and in functions such as processing sense information.
Cerebellum
A research method that involves watching and recording behaviour.
Observation
From the descriptions below, which stage are they referring to?
Children begin to use words and pictures to represent objects.
Children struggle to see things from the perspective of others.
The emergence of language is one of the major hallmarks of this stage.
Pre-operational (2 to 7 years)
Jessica can sort pencils from large to small. What stage is she in?
Concrete operational stage (7 to 12 years)
A schema no longer works and has to be changed to deal with a new experience.
Accommodation
When the foetus is 3 or 4 weeks old, a long tube develops in the brain, which is divided from the front into three distinct sections. Name these three sections.
forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain
When more than one observer codes behaviour and their results are compared to check for agreement.
Inter-rater reliability
Name the four stages, and state the age that matches with it.
Sensorimotor stage: birth to 2 years
Pre-operational stage: 2 to 7 years
Concrete operational stage: 7 to 12 years
Formal operational stage: 12+ years
A child believing that the sidewalk was mad and made them fall down, or that the stars twinkle in the sky because they are happy.
Animism
When a child's schema works for them and explain all that they experience.
Equilibrium