PSYCH-AD 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intellectual Disability, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Habituation
28 Aug 2016
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Teratogens: harmful agents such as viruses and drugs. Fetal alcohol syndrome (fas): small, mis-proportioned head and lifelong brain abnormalities- leading cause of mental retardation. Rooting reflex: when something touches baby"s cheek, they open their mouth and suck. Newborns like to look at face-like images and human voices. Will likely turn to mother"s gauzing pad because of the similar smell. Habituation: newborns become bored with a repeatedly presented visual stimulus. Maturation: from standing before walking and using nouns before adjectives genetically designed growth processes. Hard to remember events from before 3 because neural networks are not fully developed. Universal sequence: first roll over, then crawl then walk. Genes play a major role: identical twins typically begin sitting up and walking on the same day. Schemas: mental molds into which we pour our experience. Assimilation: interpret them in terms of our current understandings. Accommodation: adjust our schemas to fit the particulars of new experiences.
