EDF 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Object Permanence, Synaptic Pruning, Cerebral Cortex

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Education - Human Development and Organizational Studies
• Course: EDF 3110
• Professor: Melissa Gonzales

Document Summary

Methods for measuring brain functioning: detects changes in electrical activity in cerebral cortex, eeg, erp, 3d computerized pics of brain fmri, pet, works well on children/infants, nirs. Prefrontal cortex: region of cerebral cortex responsible for thought, especially, consciousness, use of memory, reasoning. Lateralization of cortex: left, sensory info controls right, verbal abilities, positive emotion, sequential, analytical, processing, right, sensory info controls left, spatial abilities, negative emotion, holistic, integrative processing. Increases probability that behavior will occur again by: presenting desirable stimulus, removing unpleasant stimulus, punishment, reduces probability that behavior will occur again by, presenting unpleasant stimulus, removing desirable stimulus. Piaget"s theory: schemes: psychological structures, organized ways of making sense of experience, schemes change with age, first schemes: sensorimotor action patterns, later schemes: deliberate/creative. Building schemes: adaptation, building teams through direct interaction w environment, assimilation, using current schemes to interpret external world, accommodation, adjusting old schemes and creating new ones to better fit enviro.