Psychology 2042A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Developmental Psychopathology, Neuroplasticity, Stress Management

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2042A/B
• Professor: Jeff St.Pierre

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Considered to be too quiet and too nervous . His parents yell at him and are very frustrated. A child"s problems must be considered in relation to multiple influence: individual, family, community, and culture. We consider three causes: biological influence, emotional influences, and behavioral and cognitive influences: biological influence. Ask mother about her prenatal history anything that could have affected her pregnancy (smoking, drugs, stress) He might have inherited a tendency to respond to his environment with heightened arousal (anxiety) His early neurological development and the patterns of connections established within his brain may have been influenced by the child-rearing styles of his parents when he was an infant: emotional influence. He has an inability to regulate feelings of arousal or distress without warning. Example: every time he thinks of doing homework or go to school, his anxiety levels go up. Emotional reactivity and expression are the ways infants and young kids first communicate with the world around them.