PSYC 2P12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ulnar Nerve, Positron Emission Tomography, Breastfeeding
27 Jan 2017
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Gain 50% in height from birth to age 1: 75% by age 2. Neurons that are needed are kept, the others die off. Left hemisphere: controls right side of body, verbal abilities, analytical processing. Right hemisphere: controls left side of body, spatial abilities, holistic processing. In infants and young children, parts of brain are not yet specialized. Recovery from brain injury: language > spatial skills, problems with complex mental skills. Sleep move to an adult-like, night-day schedule during the first year. Sleep needs decline from age 18 to 12 hours a day by age 2. Nutrition: malnutrition, breast vs. bottle feeding. Gross motor development: crawling, standing, and walking. Fine motor development: reaching and grasping. Each new skill is joint product of: cns development, body"s (cid:373)ove(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)apa(cid:272)ity, child"s goals, environmental supports. Rates and patterns of development affected by: early movement opportunities, environment, child-rearing. Improvements: 2 months: focus and color vision, 6-7 months: depth perception.
