PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lev Vygotsky, Synaptic Pruning, Language Acquisition

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Rebecca Kirchner

Document Summary

Nature and nurture: nature is our genetics, nurture is our life experiences. Dominant: the stronger one; recessive: the weaker one, covered by the dominant allele. The possibility that variations seen in a population are due to genetics. Concordance rates: the possibility that one trait of a person is shared by others. Involved in the discussion of fraternal and identical studies) A day in the life of a newborn. 16-18 hours of sleeping, lots of rem sleep. Age 6-13: spurt in myelination in language and spatial relations areas in the brain. Accommodation: changing or revising schemas for new materials. Object permanence: the ability to know something"s there even if they"re hidden. Changing an object appearance doesn"t change its quantity (two glasses of milk example) Egocentrism: kids can"t understand what others point of view is. Cultures play a huge role in teaching how to problem solving. Understanding that others have different thoughts from one"s own.