Psychology GCSE
Prenatal brain development
What Prenatal brain development means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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The brain begins as a simple neural structure in the womb and develops into distinct regions with specialised functions.
Topics that use Prenatal brain development
- Development (AQA GCSE)
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- Accommodation
- Active, discovery-based learning
- Application of developmental stages to education
- Application to examples of behaviour
- Assimilation
- Challenging Piaget’s methods
- Conservation and egocentricity
- Criticism of learning styles
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