PS102 Study Guide - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Sexually Transmitted Infection, Intellectual Disability
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Developmental psychologists: study physiological and cognitive changes across the life span and how these are affected by a person"s genetic predispositions, culture, circumstances, and experiences. Socialization: the process by which children learn the behaviours, attitudes, and expectations required of tem by their society or culture. Fetal alcohol syndrome: low birth weight, a smaller brain, facial deformities, lack of coordination, mental retardation: other drugs: heroine, cocaine, acne pills, diet pills etc. Babies can see (within 20 cm), hear, touch, smell, taste they can discriminate their mother on the basis of smell, sight or sound immediately. Different cultures have different ways of nurturing a baby while it is growing (e. g. putting it in a crib or sleeping with it) Emotional attachment is crucial for health and survival all through life mother is usually the first and primary object of attachment for an infant.
