PSYC 2076 Chapter : Chapter 5
Document Summary
At age 11 girls average at 4ft 10in, and boys is 4ft 9 in. Girls are taller because their adolescent growth spurt starts around age 10: cultural patterns of growth, most north american children receive sufficient nutrition for full growth. Brain growth during childhood and adolescence: the number of interconnections among cells makes brain grow rapidly. We are born with very few synaptic connections we have to create those in infancy and early childhood: neurons increase in size. Increases during adolescence: lateralization: the process whereby certain functions are located more in one hemisphere of the brain than the other, the left hemisphere controls verbal competencies: considers information sequentially, one piece of data at a time. Verbal tasks such as speaking, reading, thinking, and reasoning: the right hemisphere controls nonverbal competencies: processes information in a more global manner, reflecting on it as a whole.
