CAMS-UA 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Delayed Gratification, Cortisol, Attention Span
13 Oct 2017
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Raising kittens in darkness (period when occipital lobe was making synapses) then took them out of darkness. This resulted in a different development in the cat"s sight. Still learning to control impulses and emotions. Attention span between 10 and 20 mins. What does this look like? friends and play next to them. They use up lots of energy on previous 2, behaving all the time is hard. Spanking/corporal punishment? day regardless of discipline used. Long term effectiveness: not as effective as non physical strategies. Produces boomerangs effect: misbehavior comes back and. Cp has been linked to (correlated though, not causal) to later increases over time depression, slow learning and less education attainment. Cognitive maturation capacity increasing allowing the child to understand consequences when considering rule breaking. If you do not eat the marshmallow after a while, you get another one.
