AHSC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Constructivism, Error Detection And Correction, Cognitive Development
15 May 2016
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Body growth: girls have more fatty tissue, boys have more muscle tissue. Brain size and growth: myelination: nerve cells are covered and insulated with a layer of fat cells. This has the effect of increasing the speed of information travelling through the nervous system. Fine motor skills: drawing, building high block towers, jigsaw puzzle . Energy needs: basal metabolism rate (bmr): the minimum amount of energy a person uses in a resting state. Eating behaviour: obesity is a big factor in child development, the child"s life should be centered around activities, not meals. Piaget"s preoperational stage: 2nd stage, lasting from 2 to 7 years of age, during which children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings. They form stable concepts and begin to reason: operations: an internalized set of actions that allow a child to do mentally what before he or she did previously, ie. Symbolic function substage: occurs roughly between the ages of two and four.
