PSYC 4363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Myelin, Brain, Heritability
1 Apr 2019
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The developmental psychopathology approach: various influences on development. Risk and resilience: family factors, extrafamilial factors, look at ppt. We can"t understand kids by just looking at the kid. We were exposed to the same environment; same parents, home, etc: non-shared environment = live in the same house but different experience. Tends to be a stable trait, the kid version of personality. Those kids tend to have social anxiety later: difficult temperament tend to correlate with aggression problems later. The brain deleted the ones that aren"t needed and the ones that are get stronger: autism may be associated with problems in the pruning stage before birth, big pruning process also occurs later in childhood and into adolescence. Temperament: thomas and chess, abilities = capacities, motivation = reason, temperament = style with which a child behaves, temperament traits, sensitivity intensity of rxn: the energy level of a childs response (high.
