PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Attachment Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Conduct Disorder
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Slide 25: could be compromised at a young age, you have a bunch of other stressors when you hit puberty, pruning is happening all over the place, you see a lot of impulsivity and risk taking. Slide 28: there are interesting studies that babies will show more preferential attention to faces than anything else, there is something about the face that is hard wired to get our attention. Slide 30: no longer part of regular dsm, there is no longer a separate category for childhood anxiety disorder. Later on in childhood, you start to see externalizing behaviours that start to affect others around them as opposed to it being something about the persons internal state: when it shows up quite young, its called conduct disorder. Factors from gestation lead all the way to young adulthood, you could have initial risk factors affecting brain development: maybe the parents enforce inappropriate behaviour in infancy, maybe low social support.
