PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Family Values, Neuron, Menopause

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

A word of caution: the association between certain parenting However, there is a large number of experimental studies that clearly tell us that the cause-effect relationship with parent-children (influence children for a long time, even when they become adults ? ) Earlier puberty ( both boy & girls ) Emerging adulthood ( not fully rely on parents ) Health (healthy one enter puberty earlier than sick) Body size (overweight children enter earlier than leaner ) Hormones (in our food or environmental hazard,ex. pesticide) All in the family ( compare healthy family on average, when biological dad is not at home, children, both boys and girls will enter puberty earlier ) ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooo. The changes are going to prepare our body to reproduction, sexuality. Secondary sexual characteristics (not directly involved in reproduction) Spermarche ( beginning of development of sperm in boys" testicles at puberty ) Nothing benefits for girls to enter puberty earlier.