PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Prenatal Care, Prenatal Development, How We Think
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Study of how people change physically, mentally and socially throughout life . Idenca common characteristics of an age group and individual differences 8 stages of life. Adult: 18-40 years old middle age: 40-65 years. Maturation - depends on genetic programs and neurobiological development. Growth - gradual change in the amount of body structure. Environment - cultural, social context , familiar. Abrupt transitions - how to be a parent critical periods - prenatal development; subject totally sensitive to the influences of the environment. Each psychological event is at the same time biological; Sentences highly focused on people, with differentiation from the mother. Motor development influenced by maturation and altered by environmental factors. Sensory and perceptual development in which vision is the least developed. Personality individual differences such as calm babies vs. restless babies. Temperament influenced by innate behavioral predispositions or by social and emotional experiences. Forming emotional bonds - question of debate:
