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Includes definitions for key terms such as assimilation, accommodation, schema, conservation, seriation, object permanence, animism, egocentrism, mindsets, hypothetical thinking, readiness and reversibility. Summarises brain basics and how neurons communicate through electrical signals, neurotransmitters and synapses. Provides a stage-based overview of brain development across pre-natal, childhood, adolescence and adulthood, linking neural growth, synaptic density, pruning and maturation to behaviour and memory.","GCSE Psychology  \nDevelopment Knowledge Organiser  \nName: Form:  \nTeacher: Class:  \nKey Terminology  \n\n| Reminder of Assessment Objectives\u003Cbr>AO1 – Learners must demonstrate knowledge and understanding of psychological ideas, processes and procedures\u003Cbr>AO2 – Learners must apply knowledge and understanding of psychological ideas, processes and procedures\u003Cbr>AO3 – Learners must analyse and evaluate psychological information, ideas, processes and procedures to make judgements and draw conclusions |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |\n| Key term | Definition |  |\n| Animism | The belief that objects that are inanimate (not living) have feelings, thoughts, and have the mental characteristics and qualities of living things. |  |\n| Accommodation | Radically changing a current schema and/or by forming a new one. |  |\n| Assimilation | Adding new information to our existing schema. |  |\n| Conservation | Understanding that quantity can remain the same, despite appearance changing. |  |\n| Decentration | Ability to understand more than one feature of an object |  |\n| Egocentrism | Assuming everyone else views the world in the same way to you. |  |\n| Fixed Mindsets | People believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. |  |\n| Growth Mindsets | People believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work. |  |\n| Hypothetical thinking | Involves imagining possibilities and exploring their consequences through a process of mental simulation |  |\n| Intelligence | The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge. |  |\n| Limbic System | Regulates emotions. |  |\n| Neuron | Nerve cells. |  |\n| Object permanence | The understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be observed. |  |\n| Pre-frontal cortex | Regulates decision making and social behaviour. |  |\n| Pruning | When we get rid of the neural connections that are not used. |  |\n| Readiness | Idea that children are not ready to learn in certain ways until they have reached the relevant developmental stages. |  |\n| Reversibility | Being able to think about things in reverse order |  |\n| Schema | Mental representation about an |  |\n| Seriation | Put things in rank order |  |\n| Synapse | Gap between neurons. Neurotransmitters diffuse across this. |  |\n\nQR code for past papers and other useful resources  \n[https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse/psychology-j203-from-2017/assessment/](https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse/psychology-j203-from-2017/assessment/)  \nBrain Basics  \n| Watch the following video:\u003Cbr>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qS83wD29PY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qS83wD29PY)\u003Cbr>| |\n| --- | --- |\n\nThe brain and nervous system is made up of many nerve cells, known as neurons. Parts of the brain uses these to communicate with other parts of the brain, as well as across our whole body. 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