Psych 350 1st Edition Lecture 12 Outline of Last Lecture I Alcohol II defects III preventable IV child s growth V stages of puberty Outline of Current Lecture II Puberty III Developmental programming IV Darwin Current Lecture puberty depression and girls after onset of puberty clinical depression rates 3x as much as boys measuring onset of puberty and seeing its effects age of puberty has gone down age of menarchesecular trend age of menarche increase in height is another trend increase in IQ is another trend why improvement in diet increase in estrogen in the diet hormones fed to cows some plastics have estrogenic chemicals increase in body weight have more fat fat important trigger for the start of menarche girls that go through puberty earlier then to have more adjustment problems associated with decreased self esteem smoking sexual behavior girls who go through puberty early 10 or 11 they tend to look older feel like outliers hangout with older girls boys who go through puberty first better athletes increases their self esteem in japan from 1950 1980 increase an inch each decade they increased in high 3 inches over 30 years These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute developmental programming something that occurs early in life that shifts the developmental trajectory in one direction or another get programed early in life to go through one oath example kids born in western Europe during ending days of 2nd world war wide faminechildren born in the Netherlands surviving 200 to 300 cals a day kids who were born during tat time who were exposed to famine prenatally as adult they were overweight have heart disease diabetes and other things think they are being born into an environment with no food be big eaters whenever there is food eat as much as they can once famine ended they still ate the same way effects of early stress in families on the development of girls Darwin s theory of evolution if you are going to be successful as an individual if you pass along your genes to your kids before death 2 types of environments harsh environment 1700s had a kid 50 50 change child would die if you survived into adulthood work like a dog and prob die early evolutionary point of view puberty early and have as many children as you could half kids will die but half survive kid can carry genes on take time mature selective who you reproduce with genes from spouse are good and child is likely to survive after children help improve their lives when they grow up they do the same as you did type 1 harsh environment family stress lousy diet mother works three job care giving lousy bad father type 2 nicer environment happy family type one goes through puberty 4 6 months earlieryou can change from type 1 to type 2 for your child if you meet the right person mal nutrition cog development intellectual development poor nutrition leads to poor brain develop leads to changes in neural development anemia causes IQ problem not eating enough tired sick delay crawling walking impact intellectual and social development causing lower IQ kawaseiolack of protein swelling of belly due to draining of lymp reddish hair inadequate calories marasmus video on mal nutrition babies with mal nutrition in middle east usually under the age of 5 breastfeedingbenefits to child and mother for breast feeding when breast feeding is not a good idea start to breast feed in the hospital is not a simple process child needs to learn howHIV GALACTOSEMIA CAN NOT BREAST FEED over the decades the formulation of formula has become more nutritious some fats in breast milk are not in formula long chain fatty acids brain is mostly fat these fats as essential and are necessary for health brain development 15 years ago psych started to worry about that traditional formula does not have these fats do the have cognitive deficits that kids that have breast milk don t in 1998 babies fed regular formula vs fatty acid formula fatty acid formula babies preformed better on cognitive assessment child had to get the toy from too far away which was on a cloth test 10 month old infants with fatty acid formula did better