PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Synaptic Pruning, Late-Onset Hypogonadism, Psychoneuroimmunology
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Ex: personality, physical growth, intellectual growth, and social: nurture: interactions. Ex: personality, physical growth, intellectual growth, and social interactions: both matter: neither is powerful enough to overcome the other. Infants are born with reflexes that help them survive. Sucking: all senses besides vision are well developed at birth. Brain development: s(cid:455)(cid:374)apti(cid:272) pru(cid:374)i(cid:374)g: do(cid:374)"t use it, (cid:455)ou lose it. Typical motor development in children: lifting head/chest off the ground, rolling over, sitting up (assisted, sitting up (unassisted, crawling, walking. Piaget"s theor(cid:455): saw children as little scientists, exploring their world, and learning as a way of adapting to their environment. Stages of development: sensorimotor stage (0-2 yrs) Understand the world through senses and motor actions. An object exists even when it is not in sight: preoperational stage (2-7 yrs) The a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to see the (cid:449)orld through a(cid:374)(cid:455)o(cid:374)e else"s e(cid:455)es. The tendency to focus only on one feature of an object while ignoring other features.
