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Developmental psychology studies physical, cognitive, and social changes throughout the lifespan. Key topics include nature versus nurture, stability versus change, and continuity versus stages. The document discusses prenatal development from conception to birth, including teratogens that can cause malformations. It also summarizes newborn reflexes and preferences, as well as physical, cognitive, and social development in infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

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U04 Developmental Psychology Slides

Developmental psychology studies physical, cognitive, and social changes throughout the lifespan. Key topics include nature versus nurture, stability versus change, and continuity versus stages. The document discusses prenatal development from conception to birth, including teratogens that can cause malformations. It also summarizes newborn reflexes and preferences, as well as physical, cognitive, and social development in infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

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Developmental

Psychology
unit 4
Developmental Psych studies physical,
cognitive, and social changes throughout
the lifespan.

Nature - Nurture

Stability - Change

Continuity - Stages
m8 Prenatal
Development and
the Newborn
Conception 1,000 sperm produced per second
200 million per ejaculation
Egg : Sperm = 85,000 : 1
Zygote: conception to 2
weeks
• 7-9 days implantation
Embryo: 2 - 8 weeks
• 3 weeks, heart then
central nervous
system
Fetus: 9 weeks - birth
• 25-28 weeks, viable
Sonogram images
Teratogens

Any factor or agent causing malformation


• Drugs
• Alcohol
• Disease
Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome
Newborns

Reflex

simple, innate response to a


sensory stimulus
Preferences

Face-like images
Voice and scent
Rooting reflex
Morro reflex
Sucking reflex; no Fencer
Grasper reflex
m9 Infancy &
Childhood
Physical
Development
• Brain
maturation &
infantile
amnesia

• Motor
coordination
Cognitive
Development
Schema Assimilation

Accomodation
p 143
Social
Development
Stranger anxiety
Attachment
Body contact
Familiarity
Self-concept
Permissive

Authoritative

Authoritarian
m10 Adolescence
Physical
Cognitive

• Lawrence Kohlberg’s moral reasoning

• Jonathan Haidt’s social intuitionist

• Carol Gilligan’s empathy & caring


Kohlberg, Stages of Moral Development

Universal ethics

Postconventional
Social Contract

Law & order


Conventional
Good boy/ Good Girl

Instrumental
Preconven
Punishment avoidance
tional
Carol Gilligan
p 166
m11 Adulthood
Physical

• Declining sensory abilities


• Increased susceptibility to long-term
illness and injury
• 5% brain weight decrease by age 80
• Alzheimer’s
Cognitive

• Decreased recall & prospective memory;


no change to recognition
• Decreased fluid intelligence; increased
crystallized intelligence
Social

• Marriage
• Children
• Work
• 5 Stages of Death & Dying
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Stages of Death and Dying

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