PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Childhood Amnesia, Primitive Reflexes, Eric Lenneberg
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Developmental psychology: concerned with changes, over the lifespan, in physiology, in cognition and in social behavior. Age-related changes in psychological capacities such as perception, language, and thinking. Environment also influences what happens throughout development: infant care. Physically, at about the same periods in the lifespan, each human grows and matures: walking. Basic brain regions begin to form by week 4. Cells the form cortex are visible by week 7. Left and right hemisphere by week 12. Hormones that circulate the womb affect the fetus: low thyroid lower iq and diminished intellectual development. Mother"s emotional state can also affect fetus: high stress low birth weight and negative cognitive and physical outcomes that can persist throughout life. Teratogens: agents that can impair physical and cognitive development in the womb (drugs, alcohol, bacteria, virus and chemicals: language and reasoning may be apparent. However, not all babies born to a drug user will necessarily be impaired.
