PSYC 4070 : Exam 2 Notes
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Girl and boy differences: girls talk, control bowels and bladder, write and use cutlery earlier fine motor skills, boys are better at running, jumping and throwing gross motor skills. Low cost: other causes: measles, tetanus, whooping cough can immunize, other ills acute respiratory infections (pneumonia) life threatening use antibiotics often parents don"t recognize danger/seek help. Piaget"s preoperational stage and a brief introduction to information processing theory. Preoperational intelligence: preschoolers 2 years old to 6 years old. People are tall or short, etc: preoperational thought is inflexible and irreversible cannot reverse operations without additional learning, cannot mentally edit their thinking, preschool preoperational thinkers, typically can"t solve conservation problems concrete reasoners can. Strong, courageous, wise, rude, forceful, independent: psychological femininity, expressive personality traits. Emotional, weak, sentimental, fearful, sensitive, attractive, soft hearted, dependent. Neuropsychologists have found a reason why women are more expressive in their emotions as men: there are two hemispheres in the brain. Chose families with a little boy and girl.
