PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Prenatal Development, Preterm Birth, Fallopian Tube

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Ravi Naimpally

Document Summary

Chapter 11: human development across the life span (489- Your life provides an interesting illustration of the two themes that permeate the study of human development: transition and continuity. In investigating human development, psychologists study how people evolve through transitions over time. In looking at these transitions, developmental psychologists inevitably find continuity with the past. Development- is the sequence of age-related changes that occur as a person progresses from conception to death. It is a reasonably, cumulative process that includes both the biological and behavioural changes that take place as people grow. Dividing the life span into four broad periods: (1) the prenatal period, between conception and birth, (2) childhood, (3) adolescence and (4) adulthood. Conception occurs when fertilization creates a zygote, a one-celled organism formed by the union of a sperm and an egg. All the other cells in your body developed from this single cell.