PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Immune System, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Physical Exercise
16 Feb 2017
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Developmental psychology- examine physical, cognitive, and social development across lifespan: nature and nurture. Nature side: reason for your behavior is that biology; you are biologically hardwired for it (physically, emotionally, genetics) Nurture side: reason for your behavior is because of your surroundings and how they affect you: continuity and stages, stability and change. (cid:1005)(cid:1004) days" post fertilizatio(cid:374)- attach to uterine wall: embryo- from about 2 weeks after fertilization through second month. I. e. sucking: habituation-decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation. Infancy and childhood: brain development, brain maturation and infant memory. Infantile amnesia- finding that we have relatively few memories before. Hippocampus and frontal lobes develop into adolescence. 2 month olds show evidence of learning- kick to activate mobile. Unconscious of stored information about unused native childhood language: motor development, adolescence. Period of sexual maturation; become capable of reproducing. Body structures that make sexual reproduction possible. Much wider variation in development compares to earlier stages.
