CHAPTER: 02 (Part 01) | Human Development Quiz

Social Experience

• Physical changes in the brain

• Interacting with other people

• Using existing schemes

• Changing thinking to create new schemes

Maturation

• Changes due to environment

• Genetically driven, age-related changes

• Changes from learning

• Changes from social interactions

Mesosystem

• Immediate surroundings and activities

• Interactions among elements in the microsystem

• Societal influences

• The culture a child develops in

Schemes

• Mental operations to understand the world

• Physical changes in the brain

• Emotional responses

• Social interactions

Dendrites

• Long branches that transmit messages

• Short, branchlike structures receiving messages from other neurons

• Spaces between neurons

• Fatty coating of neurons

Axons

• Short branches that receive messages

• Long branches that transmit messages

• Spaces between neurons

• Fatty coating of neurons

Accommodation

• Using existing schemes to interpret new experiences

• Changing thinking to create new schemes

• Physical changes in the brain

• Social interactions

Development

• Physical changes

• Emotional changes

• Overall changes throughout life

• Social changes

Synapses

• Neurons

• Dendrites

• Axons

• Tiny spaces between neurons

Assimilation

• Changing thinking to create new schemes

• Using existing schemes to interpret new experiences

• Physical changes in the brain

• Social interactions