HDFS 1060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chromosome, Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate, Infertility

• School: UConn
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS 1060
• Professor: Ronald Sabatelli

Document Summary

Comments about the bioecological framework and lifespan development. Comments about developmental tasks and developmental milestones. Revisit the epigenetic principle: the epigenetic assumption is that early stages of development serve as a foundation for the rest of development. Prenatal individual and contextual factors shaping lifespan development. The genetic code of the individual and his or her trajectory of development. Revisit the concept of mutual regulation: genetic and environment are mutually regulating one another. A portion of dna that codes for one hereditary characteristic and occupies a specific place on a chromosome. Genetic factors that critically influence the trajectory of development. Gender: sex is what you are assigned at birth. Gender is how you are supposed to act as a boy or a girl, the shoulds of your sex, a boy should act this way, a girl should act this way. Gender is in a cultural context, it is socially constructed.