HUMANDEV 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Jean Piaget, Gonorrhea
12 Oct 2016
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Schemas - mental structures that process info, perception, thinking. Assimilation - input to schemas (taking in info) Accommodation - changes in schemas as a result of assimilation (changes or result of taking in new info) Thinking can be transformed into anything (feelings, emotions. actions) Sensorimotor theory (birth-2)- infant learns through senses, simple to complex actions. Preoperation theory (2-7) children are egocentric, language to form concepts, magical thinking (conservation tasks) Formal operations (12 and on)- capable of abstract thinking. How life before birth affects human health - gunther meinlschmidt, mario tegethoff 2015. In traditional asian countries, babies start life at age one (becoming 2 years old on the first day of the subsequent lunar new year"s day life starts to count long before birth) Adversity affects prenatal development stress of 9/11 affected development of babies. Low birthweight leads to morbidity and mortality. Adversity in early life are associated with risk of disease in adulthood.
