PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Synaptogenesis, Neurogenesis, Myelin

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Agnes R.Ly

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If a behavior is too complicated or does not occur, we can shape that behavior. You are rewarding closer and closer approximation of that behavior. Example: when kindergarteners first learn to write. 1st condition: just watched the bobo doll being beat up. 2nd condition: watched the bobo doll being beat up and were rewarded. 3rd condition: watched the bobo doll being beat up and were punished. Nearly all neurons we will have in our lifetime are made at the time we are born. The burst is what is biologically in you to prepare you for what info you will learn from the world. Trimming away unnecessary info that you didn"t use. Being able to tell the differences less and less. Internalized idea of how words are supposed to be put together. Synaptogenesis burst is responsible for basis of ability of babies to distinguish between all faces when they are very young.