PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psychopathology, Joint Attention, Libido

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Dasom Lee

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Chapter 3: the evolving mind (pages 71-74, 81-84) The nature vs. nurture debate: nature = genes from parents, our dna, nurture = life experiences, the environment. A day in the life of a newborn: newborn = birth to 28 days, sleep 16-18 hours/day, rem sleep is extremely important for brain development, spend 2-3 hours a day crying. Reflexes just happen naturally: (see chart below for list of reflexes and their possible purposes, don(cid:495)t have to know all of these. The newborn"s senses: smell, taste, hearing (beginning in the 7th month of pregnancy, vision (prefer faces, habituation. Assimilation: new dog has short hair, has collar, and barks so it goes into the existing schema. Accommodation: new dog has long, matted fur, barks, and has a collar. Child has to learn there are new exceptions to schema dogs can have long or short fur, they bark, and they have collars.