PSYC 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neural Tube, Primitive Reflexes, Myelin

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Karl Hennig

Document Summary

Review questions: discuss the concept of milestones and its relation to developmental psychopathology. Provide a very brief example: describe early neuronal development. Milestone and normal: a key notion in developmental. Milestones reflect what is normal and psychopathology dysfunction is defined in part by deviations from normal e. g. not growing at a certain rate; not walking or talking (autism?) by a certain age. Key notion: normal and abnormal are mutually defining. Changes in body proportions newborn is all head (70% adult size: vs. as adult: (head 12%) and legs (50%) of total. Skeletal structures: soft cartilage (prenatal) harden yet soft/pliable/not easily broken (at birth) why it"s hard to sit up or balance, continue to harden; production of blood cells, new bone formed, 6 bones of the scull. Muscular development at birth all the fibres will ever have: growth = cellular fluid in the muscle tissue bostered by protein and salts.