PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Primitive Reflexes, Eye Tracking, Mutual Exclusivity
Document Summary
Themes of development stability and change: whether your initial environment is critical and creates stability for your character over time. A baby can actively get different experiences from the world through their personality type. A happy baby elicits more happy behaviour from those around them. The baby elicits different situations depending on their temperment. As they get older they become more and more active ; the more physically active they are the more they can actively change their world. Critical period: a baby must have a certain experience or develop something by a certain time or they are in trouble. Sensitive period: should happen now the idea if you do not use it now you lose it. Ex. building trust in the 1st few years: if you never have any relationships in the 1st few years that leads to massively bad outcomes ex. learning languages.
