PSYC23H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Prairie Vole, Trier Social Stress Test, Montane Vole
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Adopt transdisciplinary approach; look both at basic and applied science. Contemporary society has greater restrictions on childhood, emphasize personal capital, economic inequality. * epigenetics: intergenerational effect of traumatic events in holocaust survivors stress-related genes passed down inter-generationally. Biology embedding- environment > ses & early adversity. Impact parent-infant interactions + child brain (neural networks, stress physiology) + child health. Biological & environmental interactions influencing child outcomes: stress as primary mechanism. Epigenetic developmental programming environment -> biology/gene expression (urie bronfenbenner) Serve and return interactions, positive and warm parent-child relationships, positive and warm relationships, vulnerability to emotional adversity and influence of parent mental health + violence, and emotional distress in family influences quality of maternal behaviour. Influence the brain, immune tissues, circulatory system, adrenal glands, and reproductive organs. Neglect: physical, emotional, drugs or alcohol abuse. Exposure to violent environment: mentally ill person in home, witnessing domestic violence, incarceration of a family member, loss of a parent to death, abandonment, or divorce.
