Psychology 2043A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Abusive Head Trauma, Klinefelter Syndrome, Turner Syndrome

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2043A/B
• Professor: Esther Goldberg

Document Summary

Week 3: risk factors and children at risk. Risk factors are the biological or environmental causes of potential disabilities. When children are considered to be high risk or at risk, they are seen to be more prone to developing some form of disabling condition or for adverse effects of school learning and behaviour. Etiology: the process of finding causes to explain how a particular problem came into existence. Symptoms: the overt reactions or manifestations of the body to a certain condition. Symptomatology: the study of symptoms and characteristics. Teratology: the study of the agents involved in major congenital malformations. Pathophysiology: the adverse effects of a condition on development. Behavioural phenotype: patterns of behaviour or characteristics exhibited by individuals with a certain condition. Chromosomes are the things that make organisms what they are. Chromosomes are made up of dna (or deoxyribonucleic acid) the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Segments of dna in specific patterns are called genes.