PSY435H1 Lecture 5: PSY435 Oct. 9 child develop.docx
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In utero mercury exposure , adverse cog development in one year olds, but negative outcomes (handeye coordination, motor speed, visual attention, memory, language development) began to emerge by age 7: pcbs: children prenatally exposed to pcbs, newborns showed hyporesponsiveness to visual and auditory stimulation, deficits in visual recognition memory, by age 11 poor attention regulation, lower iq and reading deficits developmental impact of env. Younger xchildren in high rise buildings have more behavioral problems, weaker academic performance. (could be because of restrictions on outdoor play, which results in tension: housing quality: affects psych distress and cog development social and academic competency along with standardized test scores are linked to housing quality. More chaotic home, less responsive, poor self regulatting, less compliant, engage in riskier health behaviors: neighborhood: characreristics include: housing quality, noise, crowding, toxiz exposure, quality of municipal services, recreational opportunities, retail services, street traffic, accessibility of transportation, etc. more distress in poor quality neighborhoods.
