PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Belief Perseverance, Blood Sugar, Temporal Lobe
8 Apr 2013
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Maturation: the orderly sequence of biological growth. Severe deprivation or abuse can retard development, yet the genetic growth tendencies are inborn. Maturation (nature) sets the basic course of development; experience (nurture) adjusts it: brain development: In your mother"s womb, your brain formed nerve cells at a rate of nearly one-quarter million per minute. From infancy on, brain and mind develop together. On the day you were born, you had most of the brain cells you would ever have. After birth, the branching neural networks that eventually enabled you to walk, talk, and remember had a wild growth spurt. From ages 3 to 6, the most rapid growth was in your frontal lobes, which enable rational planning. The association areas those linked with thinking, memory, and language- are the last cortical areas to develop. A use it or lose it pruning process shits down unused links and strengthens others: motor development: As an infant"s muscles and nervous system mature, skills emerge.
