PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Cell Growth, Lev Vygotsky, 18 Months

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

During infancy we go through physical, cognitive, and social milestones. Maturation: biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. Maturation (nature) sets the basic course for development and experience (nurture) adjusts it. Developing brain cortex over produce neurons to about 23 billion at birth. The branching neural networks let you walk and talk. From ages 3-6 was when the most growth occurred in the frontal lobes (enable planning) The association areas were last to develop (thinking, memory and language) Behaviors such as crawling and walking reflect a maturing nervous system. There are different ages that babies start to crawl and walk. Identical twins start walking on the same day. The cerebellum creates the readiness to start walking. Average age that have earliest conscious memory is 3. 5 years. From ages 4-8 years we can see that they are able to remember more experiences.