PSY BEH 101D Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Animal, Slow-Wave Sleep, Cortisol

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Infancy lecture: newborn capabilities: reflexes and senses. If newborn attends to one longer, the newborn recognizes the stimuli are different. Infants use caregiver displays/behavior to learn about their world. Infants" reliance on caregivers for information and knowledge about how to respond increases with development: use caregiver for information in ambiguous situations. For chapters 3 and 4, read the entire chapter. I listed below the most important topics from the chapter; paying close attention to sections that i did not cover in class. However, when content is covered in both class an lecture and listed below, review both sets of material as they are often complimentary. Intellectual growth arguably more dramatic than physical growth by 1 year. Infants engage in deliberate acts to elicit responses (e. g. wanting to be picked up: memory is robust. Language comprehension and production (via words or gestures) impressive: memory. Interactions and actions with objects emphasized: theories.