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Zygote

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Fertilized egg with chromosomes from egg and sperm

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Prenatal stages-3

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  1. Germinal stage
  2. Embryonic stage
  3. Fetal stage
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Germinal stage

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  • 2 weeks
  • begins conception
  • zygote divides and implants in uterine wall
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Embryonic stage

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  • week 2-8
  • zygote divides in uterine wall
  • cells differentiate
  • zygote is an embryo
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Fetal stage

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  • 9th week-birth
  • fetus has skeleton and muscles
  • myelination of neurons begins
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Human brain development

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  • mostly happens after birth

- head and brain grow

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Prenatal environment

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-influences genes even while fetus develops in the womb

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Teratogens

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  • agents that destroy development
  • ie environmental poisons (lead, paint dust etc)
  • alcohol, tobacco
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Fetal alcoholism

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  • developmental disorder that stems from heavy alcohol use by mother during pregnancy
  • facial features, abnormal brain,
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Tobacco during pregnancy

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-low birth weight babies

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Infancy

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  • birth-18 to 24 months
  • perceptual and motor development
  • cognitive development
  • social development
  • moral decelopment
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Motor development

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  • physical actions: reaching, crawling, grasping

- reflexes: motor response to stimulation (ir sucking reflex for breasts feeding)

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Cephalocaudal rule

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-motor skills develop head to foot

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Proximodistal rule

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Motor skills develop from center to extremities

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Cognitive development

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  • ability to think and understand

- jean Piaget

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3 tasks of cognitive development

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  • how physical world works
  • how minds represent it
  • how other minds represent it
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Piaget’s 4 stages of cognitive development

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  1. Sensorimotor (birth-2)
  2. Preoperational (2-6)
  3. concrete operational (6-11)
  4. Formal operational (11+)
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Sensorimotor

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  • develop schemas
  • object permanence
  • assimilation
  • accomodation
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Schemas

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  • theories/models of how the world works

- assimilation can occur

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Assimilation

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Apply schemas to other situations

-ie pull object closer and realize that doing the same things to other objects produce the same effect

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Accommodation

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  • infants revise schemas in light of new information

- ie pull cat closer, cat runs away; child realizes that only pulling inanimate objects makes them come closer

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Object permanence

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Objects continue to exist even when they are not visible

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Childhood- 2 stages

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  1. Preoperational

2. Concrete operational

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Preoperational

-can’t understand

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  • 2-6 yrs
  • language
  • think symbolically
  • can’t understand reversibility, conservation
  • can’t perform operations
  • egocentrism
  • brains can misrepresent the world; things can look different than they are-they don’t realize this
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Conservation

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  • quantitative properties don’t change even if appearance does
  • ie eggs in cups taken out; line of eggs is longer but number doesn’t change
  • present in concrete operational stage
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Centration

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  • focus on one property of object

- present in Preoperational stage

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Reversibility

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  • cant do this in Preoperational stage

- ie you have a brother but you can’t say that your brother has a brother

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Formal operational stage

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  • 11+

- solve non physical problems

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Egocentrism

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  • failure to understand the world is different to different observers
  • present in Preoperational stage
  • ie child tries to show mom picture through phone
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Concrete operational

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  • conservation becomes apparent

- child learns how various operations affect objects

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Theory of mind

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Human behavior is guided by mental representations

  • awareness of others and their minds
  • each mind represents the world differently
  • autistic children fail to develop this
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Autism

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  • fail to develop theory of mind

- don’t understand that people can have false beliefs and self-conscious emotions

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What determines when children acquire theory of mind

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  • number of siblings
  • frequency of pretend play
  • imaginary friends
  • socioeconomic standing of family
  • how caregivers talk to children-using psychological words
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Piaget’s flaws

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  • children go through cognitive stages gradually

- children can acquire these abilities earlier than realized

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3 skills that humans use to learn from others

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  1. Joint attention
  2. Social referencing
  3. Imitation
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Joint attention

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  • the ability to focus on what another person is focused on

- ie following gaze

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Social referencing

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  • use another persons actions as information about the world

- ie a baby looking at mom’s reaction to toy to see if its dangerous

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Imitation

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Ability to do what another person does/means to do

-ie infants mimic taking lid off jar even if adults slip up

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Primary caregiver

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  • emotional center of infant
  • infants keep mental tally of who responds most to them
  • form emotional bond or attachment
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Strange situation test

-developed by?

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  • Mary ainsworth
  • determines child’s attachment style
  • determined 4 attachment styles
    1. Secure
    2. Avoidant
    3. ambivalent
    4. Disorganized
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Secure attachment style

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Infant is calmed when caregiver is around

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Avoidant attachment style

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Infant is not distressed in absence of caregiver

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Ambivalent attachment style

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Don’t like when caregiver leaves but tries to get away when caregiver returns

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Disorganized attachment style

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No consistent pattern when caregiver leaves/returns

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Internal working model of relationships

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  • beliefs about self, primary caregiver and relationship between them
  • different thoughts for different attachment styles
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Shift from realism to relativism

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  • shift in child’s moral thinking
  • younger children think of it as real, inviolable truths about the world
  • get older and realize that some morals are created
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Shift from prescriptions to principles

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  • Moral development
  • younger: see rules as specific to a certain situation
  • older: see general principles
  • ie sharing marbles–>fairness and equity
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Shift from outcomes to intentions

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  • moral development
  • young: unintentional action that causes more harm is worse than an intentional action that causes less harm
  • shift when older
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Kohlberg

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  • moral reasoning
  • 3 stages
    1. Preconventional stage
    2. Conventional stage
    3. Postconventional stage
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Preconventional stage

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  • kohlberg
  • morality determined by effect of actor
  • children
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Conventional stage

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  • kohlberg
  • mortality determined by how well it conforms to social rules
  • adolescent
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Postcoventional stage

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  • kohlberg
  • morality determined by principles that reflect core values
  • adults
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Moral intuitionist perspective

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  • emotional reactions explained by distinguishing between right and wrong
  • people are upset because of other peoples’ emotional suffering
54
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Protraction

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The period of time between childhood and adulthood has increased
-people take on adult responsibilities at an Older age

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