DEP 5057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Blastocyst, Heredity, Synaptogenesis

• School: UCF
• Department: Developmental Psychology
• Course: DEP 5057
• Professor: Daniel Mc Connell

Document Summary

Multidirectional: development is about both gains and losses. Multi-disciplinary: we have to understand development from many different perspectives. Theories biological perspective: maturational theory o ethological theory psychodynamic perspective learning perspective o o o behaviorism/empiricism classical and operant conditioning bandura and social/imitation learning cognitive perspective o piaget - children develop schemas and then evaluate them. Evolution and heredity geneotype vs. phenotype epigenetics: geneotype-environment interactions o o passive, active know the different types and an example of that type of environment reserac/methods in genetics o adoption, twin studies. Prenatal development fertilization and conception o parental contributions of chromosomes o chromosomal abnormalities germinal period o o o o. 3 stages uterine contractions pushing afterbirth o o birth complications assessment and apgar scale. Physical growth cephalocaudal principle o born with a big head growth rate in first year. Mechanisms of growth o o heredity, hormones, nutrition neurons that wire together will fire together.