PSYCH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Object Permanence, 18 Months, Joint Attention
6 Mar 2018
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Born with reflexes and ability to learn environmental contingencies: grasping, sucking, orienting attention to novelty (anything that is new or exciting will capture the baby"s attention) Brain triples in size between birth and 4: brain development constraints behavior, developmental plasticity: environmental input impacts brain development, synaptic overproduction/ synaptic pruning. Brain development continues into adolescence; continues to constrain aspects of cognitive and social development: frontal lobes slowest to develop still developing into late adolescence or early adulthood. Life span development even through adulthood, life transitions continue to affect our psychology. Intuitive math and physics both get scaffolded upon with experience: biggest explosion is that they know language, symbolic: a word stands for something else. Maturation of skills that enable us to get along with others. Basic: theory of mind knowing that others have knowledge or intentions (common in primates, porpoises, elephants, pigs, dogs, some birds and other social mammals)
