HOMEWORK

Year 9 Topic: Development

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The Developing Brain 

The role of:

  • The brain stem
  • The thalamus
  • The cerebellum
  • The cortex
  • The name of the 4 brain lobes
The difference between nature and nurture and how psychologists know if a behaviour is genetic (nature)

Piaget 

Piaget's ideas about children:

  • Schemas
  • Assimilation
  • Accommodation
Theory of Cognitive Development:
  • ​Sensorimotor stage (0-2)
  • Pre-operational stage (2-7)
  • Concrete operational stage (7-11)
  • Formal operational stage (11+)
  • Object permanence
  • Conservation
  • Egocentrism
  • Logical thinking
  • Applications to education
Evaluation
  • Naughty teddy study
  • Policeman doll study
  • Under-estimated children (studies)
  • Over-estimated children
  • Swiss children
Dweck 

Mindset Theory

  • Motivation, success and failure
  • Growth mindset
  • Fixed mindset
  • Effort praise vs person praise
  • Internal vs external deires
Evaluation
  • Education and teachers
  • All jobs/athletes
  • ​Too much praise...

Learning Styles 
  • A preferred way of processing information.
  • Visual
  • Auditory
  • Kinaesthetic
  • Verbaliser/visualiser
Evaluation
  • Willingham - no evidence
  • Willingham - only use context
  • Over 71 learning styles
  • Using different learning styles does help some children engage.

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