PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stereopsis, Peer Pressure, Visual Cortex

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

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Class 2a - agenda for today: parents and peers, variation across cultures, parents and early experiences, variation across time, peer influence, culture and the self, cultural influences, culture and child-rearing, what is culture, developmental similarities across groups. Toda(cid:455) (cid:449)e"ll look at the i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e of pare(cid:374)ts, peers, a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ulture o(cid:374) de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. In general, this topic continues the theme of nature vs. nurture, because: parents contribute genetic material (nature) to the child, and, parents, peers, and culture contribute environmental material (nurture) to the child. We"ll (cid:272)o(cid:374)sider the e(cid:454)te(cid:374)t to (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h our li(cid:448)es are shaped (cid:271)(cid:455) these fa(cid:272)tors: parents and peers, parents and early experiences, peer influence. Intellectual environment: literacy, availability of books and music and art, etc: social environment: presence of extended family, number of friends, etc. The general pattern of neurological development of the brain is fixed for human beings. That is, development of the major structures of the brain is fixed genetically.