What’s on the Critical & Sensitive Periods poster
A 5-row table: Domain · Window · Evidence.
Evidence from deprivation and from typical development.
- Binocular vision — First few years — Amblyopia if uncorrected
- First language — Roughly to puberty — Deprivation cases
- Second-language accent — Declines from childhood — Age-of-arrival studies
- Attachment — First few years — Romanian adoptee studies
- Imprinting (birds) — Hours after hatching — Lorenz
The Romanian adoptee studies show substantial recovery with early placement, and persisting effects with later placement.
Questions about the Critical & Sensitive Periods poster
- What’s on the Critical & Sensitive Periods poster?
- A 5-row table: Domain · Window · Evidence. Evidence from deprivation and from typical development. Binocular vision — First few years — Amblyopia if uncorrected; First language — Roughly to puberty — Deprivation cases; Second-language accent — Declines from childhood — Age-of-arrival studies; Attachment — First few years — Romanian adoptee studies; Imprinting (birds) — Hours after hatching — Lorenz. The Romanian adoptee studies show substantial recovery with early placement, and persisting effects with later placement.
- Who is the Critical & Sensitive Periods poster for?
- Critical & Sensitive Periods belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning developmental can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Critical & Sensitive Periods poster?
- Critical means the window closes. Sensitive means it narrows. Most human cases are sensitive. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Critical & Sensitive Periods belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Critical & Sensitive Periods?
- Adolescence, Cognitive Ageing and Attachment sit alongside Critical & Sensitive Periods in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AdolescenceCognitive AgeingAttachment
- Is the Critical & Sensitive Periods poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Critical & Sensitive Periods downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Critical & Sensitive Periods poster print at?
- Critical & Sensitive Periods is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Critical & Sensitive Periods loses nothing.Printing guide
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