changes in mental abilites, tinking, reasoning, and memory, attention, imagination and language.
Physical development
changes in size, proportion, appearence, motor sills, coordinaion
social development
earning the values, knowledge and skills that enable them to relate to others
Emotional development
learning what feelings and emotions are, understanding how and why they occur, recognising your feelings and those of others, and developing effective ways fo managing those feelings.
physical changes to the corpus callosum in adolescence
increase in white matter volume and corpus callosum thickness, which causes an improved vocabulary and reading level, visuospatial skills, and psychomotor performance.
changes to the amygdala during adolescence
becomes more active
less emotionally regulative
react more to stress
increased risk taking behaviour
changes to the cerebellum during adolescence
more coordination
able to complete more complex movements
changes to the frontal lobe during adolescence
increased reasoning ability
able to comprehend more abstract understandings
Disequilibrium
an unpleasant sensation when we cannot explain or understand something and from which to try to escape. example is when they meet a new situation that they cannot explain.
compare accomadation and assimilation
Similarities
both are processes used when trying to understand a new concept
Differences
assimilation is making new information fit into current understandings of the world
accommodation is when ew information changes or replaces existing knowledge.
invisible displacement
testing object permanence
in the sensorimotor stage
an object is hidden from the child in their sight
and then the container with the object is moved and the child recognises which container the object is under
