PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Romanian Orphans, Visual Cortex, Cognitive Deficit
18 May 2016
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We think we have to buy these products so our kids will be smart. If we don"t spend money on brain stimulation products, we"re bad parents . Mozart effect (rauscher et al. , 1993) mozart sales sky rocketed; kids will be smarter if they listen to mozart. There"s no evidence of this or indication that this music transfers to prenatal or postnatal infants. Nature and nurture work together here you can"t make your child a genius if they"re meant to be average. At birth, it"s already 30% of its adult size. By age 2, its 70% of its adult weight. By age 6, it"s 90% of its adult weight. The brain growth spurt between 3rd trimester of pregnancy and age 2, the brain grows on average 1. 7 grams per day = 1 mg a minute. In place at birth (100-200 billion nerve cells as adults)
