PSCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Menopause, Prenatal Development, Fetus
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Concerned w/ course and causes of developmental changes over a person"s lifetime. Ex: cognitive and intellectual, social, emotional moral. Germinal stage (zygote): conception to 2 weeks. Embryonic stage (embryo): 2 weeks - 2 months develop heart nervous system, stomach, esophagus, and ovaries, or testes form. Fetal stage: 2 months - 9 months organs matures, fetus. Risks: crack babies, fetal alcohol syndrome (cognitive disability, facial malformations) Hearing: poor. prefer women"s or children"s voice. Reflexes: involuntary actions. only for 3-4 months. Infantile amnesia - childhood memories before 3-4 yrs old is not common due to encoding and storage processes undeveloped yet. Also, they don"t understand the world around them. \ Assimilation: fit new knowledge to existing schemas. Temperament (nature) - individual"s own way of expressing needs and emotions. Easy babies: predictable, enjoy new experiences, not picky. Difficult babies: irregular & irritable, emotional, cry a lot. Slow-to-warm babies: low activity level, withdraw from new situations&ppl.
