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Portage Learning PSYC 140 FINAL EXAM LATEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Two types of growth: - ANS-Cephalocaudal Proximodistal Cephalocaudal - ANS-Growth starts at the top with the head. -Brain and skull are primary locations of growth (limbs/body later). Overproduction - ANS-Brains have more ...

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FINAL EXAM LATEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS.
Two types of growth: - ANS-Cephalocaudal
Proximodistal

Cephalocaudal - ANS-Growth starts at the top with the head.
-Brain and skull are primary locations of growth (limbs/body later).

Overproduction - ANS-Brains have more synaptic connections than
needed.

Neural pruning - ANS-Important connections are maintained, and
unimportant ones are discarded.

Critical periods - ANS-Must learn information within a specific span
of time, otherwise brains won't develop

Example of critical periods - ANS-Language acquisition (before 5yo),
deaf children babbling in sign

Proximodistal - ANS-Growth starts in the trunk and moves to the
limbs.
-Gross motor b4 fine motor

Piaget - ANS--Emphasized the role of the individual in constructing
knowledge.
-Significant with Infancy and the Sensorimotor Stage

, Scheme/Schema - ANS-The brain organizing and categorizing
concepts: cafeteria, soccer team, dog.

Assimilation - ANS-Absorbing information into an existing schema:
calling all men with beards, Santa.

Accommodation - ANS-Changing schemas to make sense of
incoming information: modifying the Santa schema to only certain
men with beards.

Sensorimotor stage - ANS-The infant is learning through their senses
and developing motor skills.

Substages of sensorimotor - ANS-1) Simple reflexes
2) First habits
3) Secondary circular reaction
4) Coordination of secondary circular
5) Tertiary circular
6) Internalization of schemas

Simple reflexes - ANS-Sensation and action are coordinated
primarily through reflexive behaviors.

First habits and Primary circular reactions - ANS--coordination of
sensation and 2 types of schemes: habits (reflex) and primary
circular reactions (reproduction of an event that initially occurred by
chance)

Examples of first habits/1* circular reactions - ANS-Sucking at will:
toes, thumbs, etc.

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