PSYCH 161 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neural Tube Defect, Inner Cell Mass, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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Lecture 1 (4/5/17: we only use 10% of our brain. Psych 161 study guide: every single part of the brain is on at all times. Motor skills, motivation to crawl: the more the kid practices the walking, it will strengthen the motor cortex, no executive agent not single element has causal priority (hence: Multicausality: organisms are complex systems composed of many individual elements, self-organization developmental changes occurs because of relationships between organic components of the system, development is a series of evolving and dissolving patterns of stability (changing) Rather than a(cid:374) (cid:862)i(cid:374)e(cid:448)ita(cid:271)le (cid:373)a(cid:396)(cid:272)h(cid:863) to(cid:449)a(cid:396)ds (cid:373)atu(cid:396)it(cid:455: ex. If the picking of toy happens immediately after they put it in b, baby will have better chance of going to b: the past activity of the infant, the position of the infant during hiding event of b. If baby is viewing from birds eye view he does better than looking straight on: knowledge about correct location is emergent.
