PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 2: Introjection, Gestation, Prenatal Development

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

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10. 1 physical development from conception through infancy: developmental psychology the study of human physical, cognitive, social, and behavioural characteristics across the lifespan. Patterns of development: stages and continuity: stages periods of slow and rapid growth, see shifts in thinking and behaving and fundamental shifts in the types of abilities the child can perform. Motor development in the first year: synaptogenesis the forming of new synaptic connections, synaptic pruning the loss of weak nerve cell connections. 10. 2 infancy and childhood: cognitive and emotional development. Cognitive changes: piaget"s cognitive development theory: assimilation conservative process, whereby people fit new information into the belief systems they already possess, accommodation a creative process whereby people modify their belief structures based on experience. The formal operational stage: abstract and hypothetical thought: 11-adulthood. Involves development of advanced cognitive processes such as abstract reasoning and hypothetical thinking. Introjection the internalization of the conditional regard of significant others (pressure to do well)