PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Abo Blood Group System, Occipital Lobe, Y Chromosome
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Psych 1x03 -> wanted to understand learning, social and cogniive levels of analysis. Psych 1xx3 -> consider the biological basis of thought and behaviour as you explore the foundaional themes of development, evoluion and neuroscience. Refers to the coninuiies and changes that occur within the individual between concepion and death. Interested in understanding how you change and stay the same over ime. The biologically-imed unfolding of changes within the individual according to that individual"s geneic plan (speciic environ. The acquisiion of neuronal representaions of new informaion. Relaively permanent changes in our thoughts, behaviours, and feelings as a result of our experiences. Allows you to acquire new informaion and guide opimal strategies to respond to events and simuli in the environment. Learned processes can be controlled but can also become so pracised they become automaic. Emphasizes that maturaion and learning interact during development. Some essenial systems must be in place before learning proceeds.
