HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neuroplasticity, Learning Disability, Attachment Theory
10 Dec 2015
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Chapter four: childhood and the transition into adulthood. Quality of life depends on the resources available to the infant"s mother. Development in utero combined with early childhood, experiences, strongly influences the health and the well being of the child. Conditions before birth and the kind and amount of social stimulation support and nurturing and exposure to language in the months immediately following it are important for: cognitive, social and emotional development. Fetal and childhood experiences form the foundations of future learning, coping skills, resistance to health problems, and overall health conditions. Programming: certain outcomes will happen because they have been determined in advance. implications: a fetal or early childhood event may have lifelong health. Barker hypothesis: postulates low birth weight predisposes the child for serious negative health outcomes in later life. Developmental junctures: idea that certain biological events must be sequenced correctly and occur in the correct context or they will never occur at all.
