psychology

• Sensorimotor


  Stage of cognitive development where infants use their senses and motor abilities to explore the world
• Sensorimotor stage


  • Infants use their senses to explore and suck
  • Develop object permanence at 6 months
  • Understand that things still exist even if they can't see them
• Piaget's theory describes the stages of cognitive development in children
• Piaget's theory of cognitive development


  Pre-Operational (2-7 years old)
• Pre-Operational stage


  • Egocentric - think others see the world as they do, cannot imagine the viewpoint of others
  • Symbolic play and thinking
  • Transductive reasoning - don't understand cause and effect
  • Concentrated - can only focus on one aspect of an object at a time
• Concrete operational stage


  • Age range: 7-12 years old
  • Use concrete objects to apply rules and strategies
  • Can classify the world around them
• When a piece of research is repeated and collects the similar or same results it’s high in reliability
• Deindividuation


  When a person loses their sense of Identity because they are part of a gap
• Plaget collected quantitative and qualitative data In his 3 mountains experiment
• Left ventromedial Frontal lobe

  The part of phineas gage’s brain that suffered the most damage
• Compliance


  A person who changes their public but not their private beliefs
• In Milgrams Study 65% of participants obeyed and gour to the learner
• Independent groups


  When participants are randomly allocated to groups and their results are compared
• Situational Factors affecting Obedience

  • Proximation
  • Location
  • Legitimacy
• mainly acoustic is the encoding For the short term memory
• The FusiFam Face area is the area of the brain that is associated in prosopagnosia
• Short term memories only last 18 seconds If we cant rehearse the Information
• An example of an Inhibitory neurotransmitter Is GABA
• standardised procedures= The Set list of Instructions that allows replication and Incrasses objectivity
• 53 People took part in Gunderson's study
• out Forebrain Splits into two hemispheres after 5 weeks of development
• social support decreases conformity
• brain lateralisation is when brain activity is associated with separate hemispheres
• The pupose of the medulla oblongata is to maintain voluntary actions to keep us alive
• peterson and peterson used 24 Participants when studying the duration of the short term memory
• If a person has greater independence and less reliance on others opinions, they have an internal locus of control