Developmental psych slides

1. Developmental
Psychology
unit 4

2. Developmental Psych studies physical,
cognitive, and social changes throughout
the lifespan.
Nature - Nurture
Stability - Change
Continuity - Stages

3. m8 Prenatal
Development and
the Newborn

4. Conception 1,000 sperm produced per second
200 million per ejaculation
Egg : Sperm = 85,000 : 1

5. 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

6. Sonogram images

7. Sonogram images

8. Sonogram images

10. Teratogens
Any factor or agent causing malformation
• Drugs
• Alcohol
• Disease

11. Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome

12. Newborns
Reflex
simple, innate response to a
sensory stimulus
Preferences
Face-like images
Voice and scent

13. m9 Infancy &
Childhood

14. Physical Development
• Brain
maturation &
infantile
amnesia
• Motor
coordination

21. Cognitive Development
Schema
Assimilation
Accomodation

22. p 143

23. Social Development
Stranger anxiety
Attachment
Body contact
Familiarity
Self-concept

24. Permissive
Authoritative
Authoritarian

25. m10 Adolescence

26. Physical

27. Cognitive
• Lawrence Kohlberg’s moral reasoning
• Jonathan Haidt’s social intuitionist
• Carol Gilligan’s empathy & caring

29. m11 Adulthood

30. Physical
• Declining sensory abilities
• Increased susceptibility to long-term
illness and injury
• 5% brain weight decrease by age 80
• Alzheimer’s

31. Cognitive
• Decreased recall & prospective memory;
no change to recognition
• Decreased fluid intelligence; increased
crystallized

32. Social
• Marriage
• Children
• Work
• 5 Stages of Death & Dying