PSYC 4070 : Exam 2 Lecture Notes
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Learning- modifies brain cells and behavior, a process continuing through life. Experience constantly changes brain circuitry: brain plasticity, and behavior influenced by pre and post-natal experience, drugs, hormones, maturation, aging, diet, disease, and stress, understanding how these factors effect the brain help us understand normal and abnormal development. 3 years of age: early synaptogenesis- genetically controlled and haphazard, many more synapses created than needed, not very selective, baby has limited cognitive skills, but great flexibility, final sculpting is done by experiences not genes. Fun fact: short people tend to live longer than tall people. Illness and health in the world"s children: 1 out of 3 children in the world will die before the age of five. Jim henson example creator of the muppets: had a cold that he ignored which developed into pneumonia, he did not go to the doctor until it was way too late. The pneumonia spread throughout his body and there was nothing the doctors could do.
