CHYS 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethology, Observational Learning, Dyslexia

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P10
• Professor: Lauren Mc Namara

Document Summary

But fetus to mom: your stressing me out! (reading) do you intake the caffeine or risk the stress from not having the caffeine either way the baby is effective. Systematic continuities and changes between conception and death. Maturation: hereditary influences on aging process biology, genes. Cells that migrate to your brain from spinal column to help it grow. A premature interruption of that migration can lead to a bulking up of cells in your brain which leads to a back up which leads to a reading disorder. If dyslexia was purely genetic we would expect both twins to be affected. However it points us to the importance of thinking about if its not genetic then it must be environmental somewhere along the line. Theories that count on the environment, not an ethological theory. We are inherently biological and biological processes set the foundation for development. Ethological perspective: attention for their survival needs (food, diaper, sleep)