8338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Middle Ear, The Who, Birth Weight

• School: University of Canberra
• Department: University of Canberra
• Course: 8338
• Professor: Professor

Document Summary

Rapid gain of height in first year, slows down after this until adolescence. Double birth weight in 3 months and triple in 12 months. Differentiation and apoptosis of neurons is occurring based on the child environment. Arborisation and synaptogenesis is increasing the complexity of the brain. Classical conditioning: a situation in which an organism learns to respond in a particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about that type of response. Operant conditioning: a form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened, depending on its positive or negative consequences. Habituation: the decrease in the response to a stimulus that occurs after repeated presentations of the same stimulus. Social competence: newborns cycle through various states of arousal - deep sleep to semi awake to awake. Infants develop the foundations of social competence early and this is related to the processes of neurodevelopment. 6 months old: can sit alone in the tripod position.