PSYC 2240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Frontal Lobe, Aging Brain, Progenitor Cell
10 Jan 2020
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Events that alter behavioral development should similarly alter the brain"s structural development and vice versa. Structure development can be correlated with emerging behaviors. Behavioral development can be predicted by the underlying circuitry that must be emerging. Research can focus on factors such as hormones, injury, or socioeconomic status (ses) that influence both brain structure and behavioral development. Children are not miniature adults who simply need to learn the rules of adult behavior. A child"s brain is vastly different from an adult"s, and the brains of children at different ages are not really comparable, either. As language emerges, the speech-related structures in the brain are undergoing the necessary maturation. As frontal lobe structures mature through adolescence and into early adulthood, we look for related changes in behavior. We can also do the reverse: because we observe new abilities emerging in the teenage years and even later, we infer that they must be controlled by late-maturing neural structures and connections.
