HOMEWORK
Year 9 Topic: Development
Filter: What do I need to know?
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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