SMF101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Proprioception, Language Acquisition, Worth It

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies
• Course: SMF101
• Professor: Denise Whitehead

Document Summary

Guiding principles: development of the whole child, the importance of belonging, relationships as central, no substitute for adequate income. They are excluded in the society where they cannot participate in the social activities or eating pizza and hotdogs, because they are too poor. The brain matters: the human brain is the organ responsible for everything we do. It allows us to laugh, walk, love, talk: for each of us, our brain is a reflection of our experiences, the brain is an environmental organ. It reflects our environment: it reflects what you exposed to, like parental behaviors and actions: parental experiences the most powerful. Experience and brain development: stimuli in early life switch on genetic pathways that differentiate neuron function- Sensitive periods: stimuli affect the formation of the connections (synapses) among the billions of neurons, from studies of humans, monkeys, and rats.