PSY 230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Childhood Obesity, Myelin, Other Minds
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Capacity - ability to build on each generation"s intellectual advances. Evolutionary theorists believe at the core of our achievements lies our social cognitive capacity to put ourselves in other people"s heads and decode intentions. Myelin sheath - fatty neural cover grows into our twenties. Synaptogeneisis - process of making billions of connections between neurons is on an extended blossoming and pruning timetable. Frontal lobes - brain region responsible for thinking through our actions. In early childhood, neurons in the visual and motor cortices are in their pruning phase. Fine motor skills - involve small, coordinated movements. Main threat to growth and motor skills is lack of food. To causing stunting, undernutrition impairs gross and fine motor skills because it compromises the development of the bones, muscles, and brain. Body mass index (ibm) - ratio of a person"s weight to height.
