Psychology 3442F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Randomized Controlled Trial, Nathan Fox, Grey Matter
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Early experience and brain development around them signal comes them. There is no harm to this, and probably some benefit (children can learn to self-soothe: chronic understimulation health development, severe neglect. On a regular basis, children have less interaction than is needed for. Also associated with not being fed enough/bathed enough (basic needs aren"t met) A big problem in the u. s. children are much more likely to be neglected than experience any other kind of maltreatment: severe neglect in institutional settings. Eg. children living in orphanages or residential care. They aren"t seeing the same people all of the time: the community pays a huge price later on when children are neglected (educational achievement, economic productivity, good citizenship) It was created to boost the population of romania to raise productivity. Families could not afford to keep children. Children were turned over to the state.