PSYC 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: The First Three Years, Breastfeeding, Malnutrition
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Chapter 6: physical development and health during the first three years. Principles of early growth and physical development: cephalocaudal principle, growth occurs from top down, proximodistal principle, growth and motor development proceed from the center of the body outward. Infant suckling at the breast triggers the release of oxytocin: babies should be exclusively breast-fed for 6 months. Inadvisable if a mother is infected with any infectious illness: offers many health advantages, as well as sensory and cognitive benefits, starting solid foods, between ages 6 and 12 months. Brain and reflex behavior: central nervous system, brain and spinal cord, sensory messages to the brain, motor commands travel back. Integrating sensory information from the body: temporal lobe. Interpret smells and sounds and is involved in memory: frontal lobe. Involved in a variety of higher-order processes: cerebral cortex, governs vision, hearing and other sensory information, frontal cortex, responsible for abstract though, mental associations, remembering and deliberate motor responses.
