PSYCO223 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Binge Drinking, Sexual Orientation, Social Comparison Theory
1 Nov 2016
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Obesity: body weight 20% higher than avg weight for particular age and height. Optimal strategy: variety of low fat and high nutrition foods available for preschoolers: high iron is important (iron deficiency is issue in development, lethargy is a sign, expose children to new foods. Accidents are highest risk to preschoolers (they are exploring, sports), boys have higher rates of injury bc they take more risks. Injury is leading cause of death of children. Get (cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:272)olds (cid:271)(cid:272) i(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)e s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) has(cid:374)"t de(cid:448)eloped (cid:455)et. Improves acquisition of cognitive skills (build on each other and become more complex: amount of myelin increases. Increases speed of neural processing: neurogenesis: new neuron creation can also happen later in life. Corpus callosum: becomes thicker in preschool years: facilitates coordination between hemispheres (info interaction) Lateralization: each hemisphere develops specialized functions: left: verbal tasks (sequential processing of info, right: nonverbal tasks (looking at a pattern, simultaneous processing)
