PSYCH 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Synaptic Pruning, Visual Acuity, Longitudinal Study
13 Mar 2018
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The study of how we change or fail to change over time. Study all different aspects of psychology (cognitive, behavioural etc) Long term influences of early experiences (how do your parents affect your outcome) Certain experiences are positive and others are negative. Synapses "adding on" , synaptic pruning " taking off" Autism is associated with the failure to synaptic pruning - therefore synaptic p. You are always going to be the same tree but you are going to add stuff to. The same and them something drastic happens (discontinuous) tic pruning is developing ff to your tree e in. During its life a monarch is four different things (qualitative different th. We are biological prepared to be certain things at different parts of our lives. We learn things in stages and you cannot learn these things unless you are in. The roles of nature and nurture in development.
