PSYC 304 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Heredity, Memory, Child Development
12 Oct 2018
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Influence on education: parents and schools should teach kids to maintain the purity. Epigenetics: genes influence behavior, different experience will create emotional states which will be different for every person and influence behavior: multiple way streams: genes influence environment and vice versa. Should compare children with peers of same age - normative approach: ex: iq test use normative approach - tells if a 5yo can do what other 5yo can do, is so then normal iq. Imprinting: forming an emotional bond between child and the first moving object (usually the mother) Instinctual: ex: when chicks hatch, will follow anything that moves, not necessarily their mom. Study: a sensitive period for the development of the central auditory system in children with cochlear implants - implications for age of implantation. Psychodynamic perspective: development is determined by how a child resolves conflict at different ages, two major theories:
