PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jean Piaget, Limbic System, Psych
21 Sep 2020
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Developmental psychologists used to focus only on children. Lifespan perspective: idea that development is a lifelong process. The next phase is adolescence -transition period fro childhood to adulthood (puberty independence) Puberty: time of sexual maturation (becoming physically able to reproduce) Height changes are an early sign of puberty. Bc girls begin sooner than boys, girls briefly overtake boys in height. Girls: unpopular, low confidence, negative body image, lt problems. Girls: popular, sociable, school leaders, positive body image. Boys: unpopular, anxious talkative, attention-seeking, negative body image. Coating well used connections in myelin, in order to speed up nerve conduction. During puberty, the brain stops automatically adding new connections, and becomes so increasing myelination so two brain areas can talk more readily this makes adolescence a crucial time to learn as much as you can. The emotional limbic system gets wired for puberty before the frontal judgment centers of brain get wired for adulthood.
