PSYC 2076 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hemispherectomy, Prefrontal Cortex, Neuron
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This process strengthens the brain and makes it more efficient: experience-expectant brain development, your brain expects something to happen, ex: expecting daily exposure to light helps the brain remember and use the light pathways, experience-development brain development i. 57% from 2000-2007: the criteria for autism spectrum disorder has been widened, true increase in # cases. Crawling reflex making crawling motions when placed on tummy: moro reflex throwing arms and legs outwards (startle reflex) xi. Stepping reflex like dogs over water! xii. Gallant reflex curves body toward side that"s being stroked xiii. Babinski reflex stroke the side of the baby"s foot, toes fan out xv. Rooting reflex stroke their cheek, they look for food xvi. They can be helped by being held especially skin to skin: cross-modal transfer of perception, the senses cross over we can visually recognize an object we have just touched and not seen before. b.