PSYC 2500H Chapter 6: PSYC2500 Chapter 6
8 Feb 2018
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A life-threatening eating disorder characterizes by self-starvation and a compulsive fear of getting fat. The period between the 7th prenatal month and 2 years of age when more than half of the child"s eventual brain weight is added. A life-threatening eating disorder characterized by recurrent eating binges followed by such purging activities as heavy use of laxatives or vomiting. A period of accelerated growth in which children who have experienced growth deficits grow very rapidly to catch up to the growth trajectory that they are genetically programed to follow. A sequence of physical maturation and growth that proceeds from the head (cephalic region) to the tail (caudal region) The outer layer of the brains cerebrum that is involved in involuntary body movements, perception and higher intellectual functions such as learning, speaking, and thinking. The specialization of brain functions in the left and right cerebral hemispheres.
