PSYCH 1XX3 Final: PSYCH 1XX3 Final Exam Notes
23 Oct 2013
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Development: changes and continuities that occur within the individual between conception and death. How you change over time and how you stay the same. Maturation: biologically-timed unfolding of changes within the individual; influenced by specific environmental conditions that shape the genetically-determined processes: e. g. particular genetic plan in the right environment might lead baby to a specific maturation timeline. Learning: allow you to acquire new information and guide optimal strategies to respond to events and stimuli in the. Important role in understanding inherited traits, prenatal development and how our nervous system develops across a lifespan. In the shaping procedure, the infant is given control of the presentation of stimuli (faster rate = stimulus: preference method, looking chamber infant simultaneously looking at two different stimuli, researcher measures the direction the infant is looking. Infants tend to prefer big patterns with lots of black and white contrasts and faces. A new cell is formed (zygote) when a sperm penetrates an ovum.
