PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Attachment In Adults, Social Skills, Object Permanence

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Use-it-or-lose it pruning process shuts down unused links and strengthens others. Developing brain enables physical coordination sequence of motor (physical) development is universal not imitation but a maturing. Ns there are significant diffs in timing: 25% by 11 months, 50% by 12 months, 90% by 15 months. Back-to-sleep position is assoc"d w/ somewhat later crawling, but not later walking. Maturation creates our readiness to learn walking at about age 1; experience prior to age 1 has limited effect: muscle and neural maturation is necessary for motor development. We consciously recall little from before age 4, but our brain was processing/storing info during those yrs: babies are capable of learning even at 3 months kicking mobile (rovee- Cognitive development cognition all the mental activities assoc"d w/ thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating. Assimilate interpret new experiences in terms of our existing schemas. Accommodate adapt our current schemas to incorporate new info.