E PSY 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Autobiographical Memory, Lev Vygotsky, Fast Mapping
10 May 2020
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Obesity: body weight more than 20 percent higher than the average weight for a person of a given age and height. Myelin: protective insulation that surrounds parts of neurons. Lateralization: the process in which certain cognitive functions are located more in one hemisphere of the brain than in the other. Handedness: the preference of using one hand over another. Preoperational stage: according to piaget, the stage from approximately age two to age seven in which children"s use of symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges, and the use of concepts increases. Centration: the process of concentrating on one limited aspect of a stimulus and ignoring other aspects. Conservation: the knowledge that quantity is unrelated to the arrangement and physical appearance of objects. Transformation: the process in which one state is changed into another. Egocentric thought: thinking that does not take into account the viewpoints of others.
