PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Auditory Cortex, Prefrontal Cortex
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Was abused and locked up from the world as child. The role that social and physical abuse played on her difficulties in interacting with others and acquiring langue will never be known: but demonstrates how experience"s role in shaping both brain development and psychological development. Examines the way biological and social forces combine to shape the path of human development. Our genes set the pace and order of development (we don"t talk, walk, or smile immediately, or learn to roll over, sit up, crawl (etc) in order) Environment also influences what happens throughout development: depends on culture in which they are raised (different patterns of infant care) whether infants are carried around, how they sleep, etc. Parental practices influence how motor skills develop (whether they place their child on the floor regularly, whether the baby sleeps on its back etc) Genes and experience work together to make us who we are.
