PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Childhood Amnesia, Prenatal Development
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Module 14: developmental issues, prenatal development, and the. Stages: is development a gradual change or are there some leaps to a new way of thinking or behaving. Nurture is continuous: development is a function of experience. Nature has stages: biological maturation involves spurts of growth that make one stage of development different from another. Are they separate or a continuous process of development: moral, cognitive, psychosocial. Sperm and egg fuse together, forming a zygote (fertilized cell) Zygote divides by mitosis, forming two cells, then four, then eight, and so on. Milestone: cells differentiate into specialized locations and structures. Embryo, now a multicellular cluster, is implanted in the uterine wall. Milestone: differentiated cells develop into organs and bones. At 9 weeks, fetus will have developed hands and face. Developing fetus is attached to the uterine wall via the placenta. Milestone: at 6 months, fetus may be able to survive outside the womb (in cases of premature birth)
