PSYCH101R Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 15: Konrad Lorenz, Parenting Styles, Critical Period
15 Oct 2017
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Infancy and childhood: maturation: biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behaviour, relatively unin uenced by experience, maturation (nature) sets the basic course of development; experience (nurture) adjusts to. Before necessary muscular and neural maturation, neither pleading nor punishment will be successful. Piaget"s theory and current thinking: believed children construct their understandings of the world while interacting with it. Re ecting on piaget"s theory: piaget"s theory was less on the focus on the ages at which children typically reach speci c milestones than on their sequence. Some function at different levels: biological factors, including genetic in uences and abnormal brain development contribute to. Less of the whole-brain synchrony that integrates visual and emotional information: asd are less imitative and show much less captivity in the brain areas involved in morning others" actions. Human bonding: attachment bond is a powerful survival impulse that keeps infants close to their caregivers, infants become attached to those who are comfortable and familiar.
