PSY 1102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Autism Spectrum, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, High-Functioning Autism

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

Document Summary

Psy 1102 chapter 5 developing through the life span. Ii prenatal development: conception (to date, prenatal development. Women are born with all the eggs they need for a lifetime, and they mature. Teratology: scienti c study of the brain defects and their causes: teratogens: environmental changes can damage the baby in the womb. Vitamin c increase, risk of cancer and miscarriage. Cutting edge technology: meg- magnotencephalography, wireless technology, re exes-unlearned behaviours, rooting re ex, sucking, stepping, grasping smell to a stranger"s. Sights and sounds: babies have preference for anything human. Smell within days after birth, can recognize mother"s smell and prefer mother"s. Maturation: the growth that begins in the womb at conception and continues until the body"s organs stop growing-genetically driven, decides timing and sequence. Brain development-missing pathways between neutrons at birth are built in early childhood: pruning- connections that are unused or considered useless by the brain are killed. Cognition: complex mental processes e. g thinking, learning, memory, language.