PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Prenatal Development, Advantageous, Psychologies
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**learning outcomes*: three prenatal stages of development, why it is advantageous for humans to born with undeveloped brains, explain how the prenatal environment influences fetal development. Implanted embryo continues to divide, and its cells begin to differentiate: what embryos possesses at this stage, only 1-inch long but has arms, legs, and a beating heart. Infancy = begins at birth and last between 18 and 24 months. Desires and emotions: young children understand other people"s desires best when their own desires have, children take longer time to understand others" desires and emotions unlike their already been fulfilled and not competed for their attention own. Theory of mind: definition: mind produces representations of the world and that these representations guide behavior, age when children developed the theory of mind influences by various factors, number of siblings; frequency with their parents; imaginary companion; Lev vygotsky: unlike piaget members of own culture rather than physical objects.
