PSY 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Leptin, High Standard Manufacturing Company, Homeostasis

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: T B D

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Psy 100 study guide for exam iii. The developing person: reflexes, rooting reflex, sucking reflex, newborn abilities just after birth. Gaze longer at a drawing of face-like image preference for human faces. Sense of touch is the most well developed. Hearing is functional but takes a while to reach its full potential. Cones will take about another 6 months to fully develop: physical (motor) development, maturation: biological growth process that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. As the nervous system matures, more complicated skills develop: infancy and childhood: sequence of motor development is universal, adolescence: Relatively minimal physical changes but signs of aging are already beginning. As people grow older their immune systems also weaken. With aging, brain regions important to memory begin to atrophy: cognitive development (piaget) mental activities related to thinking, knowing, remember, and communicating.