PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Critical Period, Frontal Lobe, Depth Perception
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Study of lifelong physical, mental, and social development. Alcohol, cigarettes, illegal drugs, over the counter drugs. Moro tries to grab on when falling. Grasp grab on to objects placed in their hands. Babinski curling toes when food is touched. Viewing things 8-12 inches away from their face (distance from mother"s face when feeding) Faces/face like objects (they probably like eye contact, they might only be able to process faces, might be because it is familiar) Decrease in attending to novel stimuli after repeated exposure with it. Bad news: by age of twenty, humans have lost 90% of the neurons they were born with. Definition: limited time window for learning a skill. Brain isn"t fully developed yet (hippocampus, frontal lobe both involved in memory making) Piaget"s theory of cognitive development: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational 7 years- 12 years, formal operational birth-2 years.
