PSYO 3092 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fetal Position, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Immune System
14 Jan 2016
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The brain changes rapidly during early development and continues to change throughout the lifespan. To a large extent, much of the cognitive capacities that change during early development are due to brain development. As observer shows a toy (or face) to an infant and then places it behind a barrier barrier. Generally a child younger than 9 months old does not reach around the. The biological explanation is that the prefrontal cortex is necessary for responding to a signal that appears and then disappears, and the synapses of the prefrontal cortex develop massively between 7 and 12 months. An infants development does not depend entirely on brain growth. There are many processes of brain development that depend on experience in complex ways that blur the distinction between learning and maturation. Neuron: a nerve cell that is specialized for conducting information between the brain and other parts of the body or within the brain.
