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Developmental psychology
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1.Developmental psychology is the study of change overtime, in physociology, cognition, In Emotion, and social behavior
2. nature and nurture both play a role in development 3. emphasis on change, individual differences, experience, Context |
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Case study- Genie
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Consequences of extreme social isolation on language development, feral children
Had no human contact, explain what happens with no human contact and or language skills. |
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Prenatal Period
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Concepcion through birth
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infancy
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birth through 18 through 24 months |
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childhood
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End of infancy through onset of puberty
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adolescence
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And a childhood through 18 threw 21 years
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adulthood
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end in adolescence through death
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Zygote
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Concepcion through two weeks
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embryo
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Two two weeks through 2 months
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Fetus
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Two months through birth
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Teratogens
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Agents from the environment that can cause harm in a growing organism.
Sources: nature industry agriculture pharmaceuticals disease behavior |
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Teratogens- Alcohol
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Alcohol
Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome which leads to mental retardation and western hemisphere. A little or a lot can lead to bad congnitive effects |
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Synaptic pruning
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Process whereby the synaptic connections in the brain that are used are preserved, and those that are not are lost.
One factor that can diminish environment is poverty |
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imitation(infants)
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Earliest form of socialization
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Perception (Babies) |
way to learn about caregiver
One. Taste, smell, hearing are well-developed 2. vision increases in acuity over the first year |
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attachment
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The close and in during bond between children and their parents or other pirate caregivers.
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Imprinting
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A sensitive period during which animals become strongly attached to a nearby adult.
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Harlow's monkey experiment and mothers
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Finding pick stab wish the importance of contact comfort physical touch and reassurance, overfeeding and aiding social development.
The mothers wear me at a wire one was for feeding and one was for comfort |
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Piagets theory of cognitive development
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Covers birth to adolescence |
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Piaget's Stage theory |
Different ways of thinking about the world |
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schema related to Piagets theory |
Ways of thinking based on personal experience
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assimulation
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People are translating come information into a form they can understand
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accommodation
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People adapting to current knowledge structures or make new ones and response to experience
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Puberty
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Process leading to sexual maturity and the ability to reproduce.
Timing varies depending on biological and environmental influence |
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Gender identity
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Personal believes about whether one is female, Mail, Transgender, by gender, A gender
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ethnic identity
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An individual sense of belonging to a racial or ethnic group
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adulthood
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Maternal satisfaction tends to decline after the birth of a child
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adulthood and aging
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Although there is a steady decline in overall health and frontal slopes of the brain begin to shrink throughout adulthood, People who engage in physical and mental exercise 10 to show less cognitive decline as they age
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