PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Skills, Dsm-5, Midlife Crisis
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Psyc 1 lecture 4 part 6: developing through the life span. Examines physical, cognitive, social changes across life span: from conception to death, social = including another person, cognitive = mental processes, thinking, decision making, remembering, physical = physical self. Fewer than half of all fertilized eggs survive beyond first 2 weeks: most pregnancies are terminated automatically. Prenatal stages of development: zygote: conception two weeks. Fertilized egg: embryo: 2 9 weeks, fetus: 9 weeks birth. Maturation: biological growth process that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience. In utero: most neurons one will ever have in their life, pruning process influenced by environment in utero and postnatally. Sit -> crawl -> walk -> run: sequence of motor developments same all over world. 50% infants walk by 1 year old. Assimilation: integration/interpretation of new information based on existing schema. Accommodation: altering/changing of a schema to deal with new information.
