PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexual Differentiation, Organogenesis, Amniotic Sac
Document Summary
The environment peer in uence: friends and family culture: people around you norms personal space child rearing. Biological process: what changes in our system hormone production, how we grow. Socio-emotional processes: gender, attachment personalities and what motivates us. Continuity & discontinuity: the extent to which development involves gradual change stage theories: involve transitory times of growth from infancy terrible two"s. Stability & change: the degree to which early traits and characteristics persist through life. 1 in 4 zygote"s survive develops into an embryo. Embryonic stage: 2 weeks through 2nd month organogenesis: when major organs develop sex differentiation develop amnionic sac. 1st trimester: until the end of the 3rd month bones, muscles, sex organs. 2nd trimester: 4th through 6th month thumb sucking, sensory organ development age of viability (can it survive out of womb) 3rd trimester: 7th through 9th month rapid physical growth and brain development infant states.
