PSYCH 9B Lecture 11: PSYCH LECTURE Week 8-1
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Goal is to understand how and why we change and adapt over time: development isn"t only growth and gains, development doesn"t stop once we are adults. Icq: when does the environment first start to influence children"s psychological development: at conception. Ex) recreation, prescription, over-the-counter drugs: maternal stress, sensory input. Drugs substances capable of interfering with the development of a fetus: some effects immediately evident, some effects appear decades later. If administered during certain stage, the fetus might not be able to develop certain parts of their body. Women recruited in first trimester: completed questionnaires about stressful life events at start of study and end of pregnancy. More stressful life events predicted: poorer performance on cognitive tasks at 1 , greater fearfulness to novel toys at 1 . Women pregnant during may 1940 netherlands invasion (rotterdam: destruction of. 24000 homes; 2200 men died, 2500 civilians: long-term effects of stress, early pregnancy exposure, mid/late pregnancy exposure, non-exposed cohort.
