PSYC 315 Chapter Notes -Intellectual Disability, Teratology, Brain Damage
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Theme 1:nature and nurture: all interactions all the time: nature and nurture begin interacting before birth, prenatal exposure to teratogen, timing and amount of exposures, hearing mothers" voices, learn taste preference from mothers" diets. Theme 2: children play active roles in their own development: physically interacting with the world, looking preference since birth, walking since 13-14 mos/ grabbing things since 8-9 mos/ crawling since. 6-7 mos: practice talking to parents, help them to express feelings and desires and regulate their emotions, choose their own friends: gender segregation, work-out" in the womb, breathing to strengthen their lungs. Development progresses through a series of qualitatively distinct much though) environment stages. When children are in a given stage, a fairly broad range of their thinking and behavior exhibits the features characteristic of that stage. The stage occur in the same order for all children.
