PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psych, Occipital Lobe, Temporal Lobe
7 Jan 2017
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Development 1: development: gene-environment interactions across an individual"s lifespan, evolution: gene-environment interactions across the evolutionary history of a species, neuroscience: the study of the neural basis of thought and behaviour. Development: the changes and continuities that occur within the individual between conception and death. How you change over time and how you stay the same. Maturation: the biologically-timed unfolding of changes within the individual. How that plan is in uenced by speci c environmental conditions that shape the genetically- determined processes. Learning: relatively permanent changes in our thoughts, behaviours, and feelings as a result of our experiences. The acquisition of neuronal representations of new information. Learned processes can be controlled or automatic (through practice) Interactionist perspective: the view that holds that maturation and learning interact during development. Maturation can effect learning (physical maturation is necessary to learn things like walking and talking) Learning can effect maturation (without minimal input to learn, maturation will be absent or delayed)
