PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean Piaget, Parenting Styles, Prenatal Development

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Developmental psychology: researchers study how we change overtime: physically, emotional, cognitively, socially. Development: patterns of change that begin at conception, and continue through out the life span. Not just about positive change, also includes decay, death etc. 4 major issues: question of nature/nurture, which drives development, continuity vs. Stages, how does development unfold (in stages?: stability vs. change (traits developed as a child, will they develop over, the impact of early experience (early experiences, will they affect our lifespan or will they change?) attitudes behaviours?) Once egg is fertilized, a biochemical enzyme is released that stops other. Over 200 million sperm released: prenatal development b1. The gestation period duration of pregnancy: sperms from entering the egg apart from the one which fertilized it. Fewer than half of fertilized eggs survive: 1st stage, the germinal stage. Baby is a zygote, lasts for about 14 days. Cells then begin to differentiate in function and structure.