PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Autism Spectrum, Jean Piaget, Developmental Psychology
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Psych10: intro to psychology- lecture 16: infancy and childhood. In psychology: changes that occur primarily because of the passage of time. In developmental psychology: biologically driven growth and development enabling orderly (predictably sequential) changes in behavior. Experience can adjust the timing but maturation sets the sequence. In the womb, the number of neurons grow. At the beginning of birth, the connections among neurons proliferate. As we learn, we form more branches and more neural networks. In infancy, the growth in neural connections takes place initially in the less complex parts of the brain. Cognitive development: the mental activities that help us function. Schema: a mental container we build to hold our experiences. Can take the forms of images, models, and concepts. Assimilate an experience into the scheme by referring. Theory of mind refers to the ability to understand that others have their own thoughts and perspective.
