PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Motivation, Cognitive Load, Learned Helplessness
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Amount of physical touch brain development: ex. Emotional responsiveness & grounding achievement & relationship outcomes for decades: the from parents affects babies biological development and lasts for a long time. Many systems and levels of analysis affect our developing psychology. Genie escape abuse household with mother seems developmentally delayed. Not a normal 7 year old = restrained, fearful, shutdown. Unable to walk, climb, moved like a rabbit. She was locked in a tiny, dark room, tied to a toilet, no human contact (except beating), no stimulation, no games, friends, outside nothing. Got abused in institutional setting, her mother got back custody, was so damaged and she disappeared into a world in extreme care for people. Never learn to be a (cid:498)normal person(cid:499) Learned helplessness in 1st 2 month kids programmed > give up: i(cid:495)m not gunna try, (cid:498)i can(cid:495)t(cid:499) person, environmental nurture effect. By 8 moths kids becoming slackers, avoiding behavioral coping strategies.