EDUC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Synaptic Pruning, Orangutan, Lev Vygotsky
18 Oct 2018
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An infant"s environment can impact behaviour and development: example of her daughter checking her sons oxygen, no child is born with the innate skill of checking oxygen. No because of environmental changes: the ability to rewire (plasticity) and environment and experiences helps this. Sensitive period: the brain isn"t fully developed/formed so it is easy for the brain to recover from traumas (stroke) than if a 90 year old had one. So much going on in these first 2 years of life. The brain keeps it and maintains it/not prune this reflex: no time is wasted relearning the skill. Implications of pruning: children with very low ses: pruning happens more often, children who are more at risk (not as many experiences as normal children) do not make certain connections. Normal child will make a connection between these animals, but troubled children will not because they lack experience and more has been pruned: piaget, without experience, children"s cognitive development is impacted.
