Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Prenatal Development, Preterm Birth

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Nature vs. nurture (products of heredity and environment) Critical period (age range in which certain experiences must occur for development to proceed normally) and sensitive period (optimal age range for certain experiences, but if they occur at some other time, normal development will still be possible) Continuity (gradual development) and discontinuity (progressing through distinct stages) No change (ability present at or before birth and remains constant) Continuity (ability not present at birth, but develops gradually over time and remains constant) Discontinuity (ability progresses in stages; rapid shifts from lower level of performance to higher) Inverted u-shaped (ability emerges after birth, peaks, then disappears with age) U-shaped (ability is present early in live, disappears temporarily, then re-emerges later) Cross sectional design (compare people of different ages at same point in time) Longitudinal design (repeatedly tests the same cohort as it grows older) Prenatal period (266 days during which a single-cell organism develops in a complex newborn human)