PSY311H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Stress (Mechanics), John Bowlby, Psychopathology
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We put a lot of effort, money and focus on early childhood education because matter the most. Neural plasticity takes places greatly here, as older changes little. Theoretical answers: freud-childhood really matters: neurons are only acquired during early childhood even through symptoms may not appear until much later. Children brought up in difficult families, ad child has reason to become anxious because cant predict whats going to happen in day to day life will become neurotic: the child is psychologically father to the man. Childhood is going to determine what adulthood is like. Theoretical answers: erikson: child acquires a sense of trust or mistrust through feeding experiences- emphasis on general personal relationship qualities rather than on specific experiences that may cause adult psychopathology. Lorenz: critical periods represent developmental phases of maximum susceptibility to certain kinds of influence. Sensitive periods are concerned with probabilities of certain forms of learning being higher within certain age ranges.