PSYC23H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 -03-01-12.docx
Document Summary
Parenting is bizarre; the fact that many of us will just be handed some little creature at some point to take care of; you suddenly are the sole responsibility, it"s non-stop consistent demand. The impact of it on your psychology, we don"t really know what really happens. Today we just want to consider whether that"s a possibility. All of the stuff we"ve been looking at so far focused on one type of parenting. There are specifics we can look at with regards to parenting behaviours. The hippocampus (navigation and spatial relation) is a little bigger for certain people. Experience does sculpt and change specific parts of the brain that are used for specific tasks. The model that the brain is really a muscle; that"s more than a metaphor, it"s pretty true. It"s possible that there may be major changes in the brain that are allowing you to better interact with your child.
