PSY 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Central Nervous System, Command Center, Colostrum
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Fear of pain, unease with breast feeding, and public breast feeding. Level of education: colostrum, advantages of breast feeding for the mother, disadvantages of breast milk, what about mothers who smoke, development of the central nervous system (cns) Processes information and directs behavior: develops at many levels at the same time, reciprocal interplay between biology and context affects brain development, what is the brain, command center of organism. The neuron and synapse: brain of neonate weighs less than one pound, by first birthday, the brain triples in weight, reaching nearly 70% of adult weight. Increase in neural connections in the brain: brain plasticity. Involve the active formation of new synaptic connections in response to experience: we create our own development through active involvement with the environment. Types of plasticity: critical periods, wiesel & hubel, modifiability, compensation. The autonomic nervous system (ans: regulates many body activities without voluntary control, many systems cycle in identifiable and predictable rhythms.
