PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Parenting Styles, Birth Weight, Teratology
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Emotion and cognition: they are interwoven feelings and thoughts go hand in hand with one another feelings can activate different networks in the brain. Different types of parenting styles: strong daddy model discipline, egalitarian emotionally sensitive nurturing communication attunement, language and reasoning are being developed in both of these. We develop physical emotional cognitive. All of your thinking has been predetermined by your emotions and models physical state. Emotions can take over and thought or rather logic. Prenatal and infant development are affected by environmental factors: e. g. , teratogens, stress, touch, etc. Babies are being effected before they are even born. Babies can be profoundly influenced by things outside of their biology ex. a mother"s stress while carrying the child can affect birth weight, cognitive and physical development. Women who handle stress better would have less risk for this. Cultural practices, our cultures are constructing us biologically the amount of physical touch has a direct impact on a babies brain development.