Emotional Development and Cognitive Psychology

1. Today we talked about the importance of emotional development and began to discuss the complexities of the brain. We talked about specific areas of the brain and how information is stored and transmitted and some of the basic assumptions that we make about cognitivism like that we are selective about what they process and the importance of prior knowledge and beliefs.
2. I feel like the more we learn about the brain the more we are able to utilize our own capacities. I also think it is helping us understand how to repair brain damage. We discussed a lot about how people have recovered from severe brain damage and how the brain has adapted. The more we know, the more we are able to help.
3. It is so fascinating how much we are learning and how much there still is to learn about the brain! It is effecting the way that we teach and the way that we helping children remember information and develop in every area. It will be important to stay current on research on the brain because you never know what scientists will discover next!