PSYCH101 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 required reading Module 9

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Objective 9. 1 describe some developmental changes in a child"s brain and explain why maturation accounts for many of our similarities. Ages 3-6 brain development in the frontal lobes is most pronounces. Development of the associated areas of the vortex enable thinking, memory, and language. Brain pathways will develop and strengthen with use until puberty. Maturation guides infants along the same general course of development. Objective 9. 2 outline four events in the motor development sequence from birth to toddlerhood , and to evaluate the effects of maturation and experience on that sequence. Objective 9. 3 explain why we have few memories of experiences during our first three years of life. Infantile amnesia - an inability to recall memories before the age of 3, results from a change in the way the brain organizes memories. As infants get older, their memory bank grows to enable the infant to store more memories.