reviewAmerican PsychologistMar 6, 2012GREEN OA

Child development in the context of adversity: Experiential canalization of brain and behavior.

New York University

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Abstract

The authors examine the effects of poverty-related adversity on child development, drawing upon psychobiological principles of experiential canalization and the biological embedding of experience. They integrate findings from research on stress physiology, neurocognitive function, and self-regulation to consider adaptive processes in response to adversity as an aspect of children's development. Recent research on early caregiving is paired with research in prevention science to provide a reorientation of thinking about the ways in which psychosocial and economic adversity are related to continuity in human development.

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Keywords
  • Psychology
  • Experiential learning
  • Neurocognitive
  • Developmental psychology
  • Context (archaeology)
  • Psychosocial
  • Poverty
  • Brain development
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • No poverty
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