PSY2510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Corpus Callosum, Reticular Formation, Deciduous Teeth
17 Oct 2018
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Growth from age 3 to 6: bodily growth: children grow about 2 to 3 inches a year and add 5 to 7 pounds, boys slightly taller and heavier than girls, primary teeth replace primary baby teeth. Infantile amnesia: inability to remember anything that happened prior to age 2. Motor development: gross and fine motor skills: gross motor skills extend abilities that appeared earlier, some gender differences, fine motor development allows refinement of skills, drawing shapes, letters, and sentences. Motor development: handedness: preferences for handedness can be seen prenatally, genetics, adopted children resemble biological parents more than adoptive parents, identical twins likely to differ, culture, historically left-handedness is considered evil. Piaget"s preoperational stage: child begins to internalize images and use symbols. Conservation: children lack the ability to understand conservation, this lack of understanding could be due to, centration: focusing on one aspect of a problem while excluding others, reversibility: reverse an action mentally.
