PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Public Health Genomics, List Of Mammalian Gestation Durations, Pacifier

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Developmental psychology: study of physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span. Development: patterns in behaviour that begin at conception and continue throughout the lifespan; about growth, including death. 4 major issues about development: nature/nurture. Continuity/stages: is development gradual and continuous (escalator) or is it separate stages (ladder: stability/change: do our early personalities persist through life or do our traits change with age, impact of early experience. Has intercourse with a man without contraceptives. 200 million sperm try to reach the egg. Once a sperm reaches the egg, it releases an enzyme that eats away the protective layer of the egg. Once it gets through, the egg encloses the sperm, and makes another protective layer to keep away other sperm cells. Upon the combination of the egg and sperm and fertilization, a zygote is formed: prenatal development. Many diseases; problems with babies in womb since the protection is not.