Child Psychology

The allocation task Parents come into the room Parents divide the candies Children come into the room Children divide the candies 11 Blake, Corbit, Callaghan, & Warneken (2016) Results (USA) 12 Blake, Corbit, Callaghan, & Warneken (2016) Results (India) 13 Blake, Corbit, Callaghan, & Warneken (2016) Rewarding morality • Even very young children perfor

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Period of the fetus 2nd trimester (months 4-6) • Fetus is acve; mother can feel movement • Glial cells increase rapidly connuing to birth • Neurons rapidly form synapses • Sensivity to sound and light emerges • Cannot yet survive outside the womb 10 Cells which support and feed neurons Connecons between neurons Period of the fetus 3rd trimester (months 7

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Auto-stimulation theory • Infants spend so much me in REM because REM sleep smulates their higher brain centers • REM compensates for external smulaon? • To test the theory, newborns were shown either a checkerboard or plain gray paern before feeding • Acvity and sleep paerns were monitored unl end of ﬁrst REM sleep period 22 Boismier (1977) Result

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How does each child-rearing dimension aﬀect diﬀerent aspects of development? • 14 to 18-year-olds • Parenng assessed with respect to: − Behavioral control − Involvement − Psychological autonomy granng • Outcomes assessed with respect to: − Behavior problems − Psychosocial development − Internal distress − Academic competence 11 Gray & Steinberg (1

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Executive Function Unit 2 Lecture 4 What is executive function? • Execuve funcons: “adapve, goal-directed behaviors that enable individuals to override more automac or established thoughts and responses” 2 Garon et al. (2008) The Tower of Hanoi 3 Solving the Tower of Hanoi • Goal: move stack to peg 3 − Subgoal: move large disk to peg 3 − Subgoal: move med

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