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Psy 101 Human Development Notes
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- Psy 101
- Institution
- Liberty University
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- Human developmentDevelopmental psychology: study of physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes through
lifespan (birth to death psychology)
- Womb to tomb
Socioemotional: where emotions/relationships connect
- Cognitive development
- Cognition = mental activities; thinking, intelligence, language
- Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
- Heavily influenced by evolution
- Developed IQ tests for children (French schools wanted stragglers to stay with their
peers)
- Focus on similarity of wrong answers among different age groups (found as kids grow,
their thinking grows/becomes more logical)
- 1 Corinthians 13:11
- Stages of cognitive development
Schema: mental molds/filing systems; organize/categorize information (contain influence, view
of ourselves, others, and the world around us)
Responses to New Information
Assimilating: incorporate new material into pre-existing schema
Accommodating: adjust schema(s) to fit new material (ex. child learning about a new animal)
Somatosensory cortex: processes information about body sensations (in front of parietal lobes)
, Motor cortex: processes information about voluntary movements (rear of frontal lobes)
Association cortex: regions of cerebral cortex that integrate motor/sensory information (highest
intellectual function, ex. thinking/problem solving)
Corpus callosum: bundle of axons connecting brain’s hemispheres (information relay)
Left hemisphere: speech, grammar, song lyrics
Right hemisphere: nonverbal information; spatial perception, visual recognition, emotion, humor
Endocrine system: glands that regulate activities of certain organs by releasing chemicals into
bloodstream
Glands: organs/tissues that create chemicals/control bodily functions
- Nervous/endocrine systems are connected
Hormones: chemical messengers produced by endocrine glands
- Pituitary, thyroid/parathyroid, adrenals, pancreas, ovaries/testes
Pituitary gland: growth/management of other glands; below hypothalamus
Adrenal glands: mood, energy, coping with stress (top of kidney)
Pancreas: digestive/endocrine; metabolism, body weight, obesity (on top of stomach)
Forms of Brain Repair
1. Collateral sprouting
a. Axons of healthy neurons adjacent to damaged cells grow new branches
2. Substitution of function
3. Neurogenesis
a. Process by which new neurons are generated
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