PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dishabituation, Zygote, Egg Cell
3 Jan 2019
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Foundational topics: development: gene-environment interaction across an individual"s lifespan. Evolution: gene-environment interactions across the evolutionary history of a species: neuroscience: the study of the nervous system. Introduction to development: development: refers the changes and continuities that occur within the individual between conception and death, maturation: the biologically-timed unfolding of changes within the individual according to that individual"s genetic plan. How that plan unfolds is influenced by specific environmental conditions that shape the genetically-determined processes. Learning: relatively permanent changes in our thoughts, behaviours and feelings as a result of our experiences. The acquisition of neuronal representations of new information. Learning processes allow you to acquire new information and guide optimal strategies to respond to events and stimuli in the environment: practice can make once controlled processes automatic: Crossing the road and looking left and right, touching a hot stove, piano lessons. All of these were initially controlled processes but become automatic as we grow up.
