PSYC 4P56 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Endophenotype
9 Feb 2015
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In the article by evans and fuller-rowell (2013), they examined how poverty and chronic stress during childhood can affect executive functioning into adulthood. In this research, children"s socioeconomic status was correlated with their working memory performance; however this correlation was not applicable to all children who grew up in poverty. This correlation was found to be moderated by the child"s self-regulation ability, where better self-regulatory skills protected against harmful effects on working memory in adulthood. Although the outcomes of this interaction appear to be mainly a behavioural approach, it can also be considered in a maturation approach. Since an impoverished environment can cause additional stress, the child may not develop at the same rate as a child who lives in an enriched environment with minimal stress. A maturation approach to this topic can help us examine it in terms of sensitive periods in children"s development where deprived environments may have a more harmful effect during certain periods compared to others.
