PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Long-Term Memory, Prenatal Development, Object Permanence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: all

Document Summary

How do genetic inheritance and experience influence our behaviour. Conception single sperm penetrates the outer coating of the egg and fertilizes it. Competent newborn infants are born with reflexes that aid in survival including rooting reflex which helps them locate food. Infants born preferred to listen, stare, etc, at certain things that will allow them to socialise. Offspring cries are important signals for parents to provide nourishment in animals and humans, such cries are quickly attended to. Span from birth to the teenage years, the individuals grows physically, cognitively and socially. To understand the emergency of motor skills and memory, we must understand the. Infant psychological development depends on their biological development. After birth, the neural network multiplies resulting in increased physical and mental developing body development. Development of the brain unfolds based on genetic instructions causing various bodily and mental functions to occur in sequence standing before walking, babbling before talking- this is called maturation.