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In Utero

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Language development is happening but not to the extent that we think about language

For example: they have a preference for their mother’s voice

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Placenta

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Screens/filters harmful substances coming in from mother

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Why does the placenta have a problem?

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Placenta can’t do it all; things slip through and can harm the baby

These are called TERATOGENS

For example: constant use of alcohol/drugs

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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  • learning difficulty
  • low IQ/intellectually disabled
  • facial dysmorphology
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Examples of facial dysmorphology?

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Bridge of nose super wide and thick; lips disformed, teeth with massive gaps, etc.
~ Not just in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome but other genetic conditions as well

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Utero Reflexes

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can come back as adults; they are innate/automatic survival mechanisms

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4 survival reflexes in babies

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1.) Rooting reflex
2.) Sucking reflex
3.) Startle reflex
4.) Grasp reflex

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Rooting reflex

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If you touch the corner of a newborn’s mouth, they will automatically turn their head and root for food/nipple so they can survive

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Sucking reflex (coupled with rooting)

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If you put a nipple in their mouth, they innately know how to suck out the milk

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Startle reflex

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If you startle a newborn, they put their hands up in the air for attention

  • Attention grabber and then coupled with crying to protect themselves and get help
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Grasp reflex

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Automatically latches your finger/something if you put near their hand

  • Physical/grasping mechanism to prepare themselves and learn motor skills when they get older
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What happens to baby reflexes when you age?

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They get buried when you no longer need them, but they do disappear entirely

  • For some people in adulthood, like those with dementia, these reflexes can reappear (leading you to be dependent on someone else again)

It is a last ditch survival mechanism

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What do you remember about the frontal lobe?

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Takes up 40% of cortex

Terms of development:
- last part of the brain to develop in utero; doesn’t stop maturing until 25
- AGE 3-6 MOST RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF FRONTAL LOBE OCCURS (explosion of development)

What is happening in the frontal lobe during ages 3-6?
*Language development rapidly increases
*Brain is especially plastic at this time, which is why 3-6!
*Motor skills developing (walking)
** Pruning

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Why is it hard to learn a new language when you are older?

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Ages 3-6 is the best time to teach a child a new language since the brain is so plastic at this time; the brain is solidified and done growing as an adult, making it much more difficult to learn a new language

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What is pruning again?

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Links and connection in brain that are not used, so the brain trims away the ones you don’t need in a process called PRUNING

  • removing synaptic connections that are unused
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What is special about motor development?

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It is UNIVERSAL in children and does not vary by region, culture, etc.

Different pace but same order sequence

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Universal motor development

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1.) Sit
2.) Crawl
3.) Walk
4.) Run

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Who was a major player in cognition?

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John Piaget

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Criticism surrounding John Piaget’s work

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The participants of his research were his own kids, so his theories are biased to his children and not on diverse population

  • HOWEVER, his stage model tends to hold up though
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Piaget’s Schema

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1.) Assimilation
2.) Accommodation

  • based on knowledge, experience, and exposure
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What is a Schema?

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Way for us to organize concepts

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Assimilation

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Integration of new information into existing schema

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Accommodation

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Introduction of something new and slightly different that changes/broadens a person’s schema

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Piaget’s 4 stages of how children learn through adolescence (cognitive)

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1.) “Sensorimotor”
2.) “Preoperational”
3.) “Concrete Operational”
4.) “Formal Operational”.

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“Sensorimotor” stage

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  • Age 0-2 roughly
  • Learn through interacting with the world (putting everything in their mouth to see what it is; walking and getting into everything, etc.)
  • Object permanence
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What is object permanence?

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Understanding that something exists even if out of sight or hearing (develops during stage 1)

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“Preoperational” stage

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Higher order functioning (cognitive, etc.)
- Don’t have the necessary ability to perform higher order functioning or mental operations
- Age 2-7
- Language is starting to develop more rapidly
- Conservation (same amount in different vessels…)
- Significant egocentrism rapid in this stage

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Conservation

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Idea that amounts of things can be the same despite different vessels/sizes

Kids do NOT have this
- Kids think other kids are getting more than them

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Egocentrism

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You can’t take the point of view of someone else (you can only think about yourself)

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“Concrete Operational” stage

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  • Age 7-11
  • Can do “basic” higher order functions/operations
  • Conservation at this point
  • General math concepts, etc.
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What does “Concrete” mean?

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Basic; limited

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“Formal Operational” stage

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  • Age 12+
  • Imagined symbols/symbolic thinking
  • This will continue to progress
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What does “Formal” mean?

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Abstract/hypotheticals

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Social development in early childhood and adolescence

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Attachment
- Harlow studies
- Erik Erikson

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Harlow studies

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Took baby monkeys and had two conditions to see what monkeys would do in the absence or presence of food and attachment/warmth of mom

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Two groups/conditions of the Harlow studies?

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1.) Pure metal gives food
- Wire monkey mom gave food
- no cloth for warmth of mother

2.) Warmth of cloth, no food
- Wire monkey that gave NO food
- Cloth for warmth of mother

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Results of Harlow studies?

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  • The baby monkeys don’t care about the food, they crave the warmth of their mother

~ This led to explosion of attachment research

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Erik Erikson

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Proposed 8 psychosocial stages
- Throughout linear development, we all go through challenges and if you successfully conquer that challenge, you are good to go to next stage

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Erik psychological stage 1

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  • Age 0-1
  • “Trust vs. Mistrust”

~Connected to attachment

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Trust

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=Success to move forward

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Mistrust

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=You get stuck and have mental health issues

  • Abuse, neglect, not interacting or paying attention to child
    (ex. pushing babysitting on others)
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Parenting Styles

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Developed by Bam Rind
- 4 main styles in quadrants

~ Guardians are supportive or unsupportive and demanding or underdemanding

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What are the 4 parenting styles?

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1.) Authoritative
2.) Authoritarian
3.) Permissive
4.) Neglectful

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Authoritative Parenting Style

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  • demanding and supportive
  • relationship is more reciprocal
  • give and take
  • solves problems together with child
  • sets clear rules and expectations
  • open communication and natural consequences
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Authoritarian Parenting Style

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  • demanding and unsupportive
  • relationship more controlling
  • parent-driven
  • sets strict rules and punishment
  • one-way communication, with little consideration of child’s social-emotional and behavioral needs
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Permissive Parenting Style

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  • understanding and supportive
  • permit you to do what you want
  • low in control
  • child-driven
  • rarely gives or enforces rules
  • overindulges child to avoid conflict
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Neglectful Parenting Style

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  • unsupportive and not understanding
  • uninvolved/absent
  • provides little nurturance or guidance
  • indifferent to child’s social-emotional and behavioral needs
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What is the best parenting style?

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Authoritative
- demanding but supportive shows the best outcomes in performance of their children in all aspects of life

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Adolescence

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  • Physical development
  • Brain changes
  • Surge of hormones
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Physical development in adolescence is caused by what?

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Puberty

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Brain standpoint of adolescence?

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  • increased connection in brain until puberty and then things fade out a bit
  • pruning again (getting rid of unused neurons and connections)
  • myelin continues to develop (speeding up axon transport of signal)
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Surge of hormones in adolescence?

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  • lagging limbic system (hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus)
  • leads to more impulsive behaviors and risk-taking since limbic system can’t process it yet
  • spike in egocentrism (world revolves around them)
  • Piaget’s emergence of the “Formal Operational” stage (think abstractly, critically)
  • Morality
  • **Seeking of identity socially and trying to figure out who they are (peaks)
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Early/Mid Adulthood

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  • Physical decline in mid 20s, but not massively significant
  • Sexual fertility
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Physical decline in mid adulthood

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  • Muscular strength goes down
  • Cardiac output declines (blood pressure, cholesterol, etc.)
  • Sensory processing declines
  • Reaction time decreases
  • fertility
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Late adulthood

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  • more massive changes in strength, stamina, and reaction time
  • big dips in sensory ability
  • Immune system overall weakens
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Why are individuals in late adulthood more susceptible to larger issues but not short term illnesses such as colds?

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The overall immune system declines so it can’t fight off illnesses very well unless they were already exposed to them in the past… built up immunity for a cold during this time since body has been exposed to it longer

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Aging and the brain

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  • memory overall declines
  • Processing speed in the brain declines
  • cognitive reserve theory
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Cognitive reserve theory example

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Curious why if we took two brains with dementia with similar morphology, why one is confined to a nursing home and the other is not (and is still able to function almost normally)

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Cognitive Reserve Theory

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Differences in symptoms people display in behavior and cognition based on life experiences

  • your life experiences can help prevent cognitive decline
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How can your life experiences help ward off cognitive decline?

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1.) Intelligence (some genetics involved)
2.) Academic and occupational attainment
3.) Lifestyle variables that directly affect brain health

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What are the lifestyle variables that directly affect brain health?

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1.) Physical activity/exercise
2.) Sleep patterns
3.) Diet
4.) *Socialization (good quality relationships)
5.) *Stress management (cortisol stress hormone beats up brain)
6.) Cognitive stimulation through reading, doing puzzles, word games, etc.

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Outcome of filling cogntitive reserve bank?

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Less cognitive decline; less dementia

If there has been injury or insult to brain, you can bounce back better and faster

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Is there a guarantee against dementia?

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No

ex. Strokes and never knew she had them
- evidence on of brain on MRI
- all neuro testing fine but atrophy noted on brain
- scientist for NASA
- good reserve

but healthy 30 year olds can also have strokes….

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Adulthood social perspective

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Midlife crisis

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Midlife crisis?

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Examples include:
Divorce
Loss of loved one
Job issues/loss

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Well-being

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65+ individuals are often examined
- Stable

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What can drop well being?

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Loss
Physical decline
Loss of freedom (not being able to drive anymore or care for yourself without help

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Death and dying

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Trust vs. mistrust based on interactions with parents

  • but Eriksonian stage 1st and last stage in this age
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People reflect on whether they had a good life or not

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This is known as “reconcile” and you ask yourself this: “Did I live a good life”

  • Erikson says this is good and passed this stage; if you did not have a good life, you failed this stage
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Terminally ill patients

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Stages of grief: people do not go through the stages predictably (not in same order, same method, or same time

** stages are not consistent for all

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