HDE 103 Midterm: HDE 103 MT2
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Iron deficiency is associated with decreased cognitive abilities and resistance to disease. Face-to-face (eye contact, turn taking, verbalization, etc) goal in itself: mother infant eye-contact, 2. It can be considered culturally dangerous at most, or at least irrelevant waste of time with the baby: bringing up brainy babies. The idea that before birth, infants learned from the environments outside the womb: 2. Research on experience-dependent brain growth: animals raised in enriched environment produced more brain cells, 3. In societies with high infant mortality rates, parents will not consider early intellectual stimulation to be important (but in a society with a low infant mortality rate parents of terminally ill child might) *more fo(cid:272)used o(cid:374) (cid:271)a(cid:271)(cid:455)"s su(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:448)al. In terms of economic goals, self-directed in hunter-gatherer or middle-class communities versus conformity in working-class community. In the usa: (cid:862)traje(cid:272)tory prin(cid:272)iple(cid:863) (*predetermined trajectory, children will follow a trajectory, life is set to continue through certain paths)