PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cell Growth, Prenatal Development, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Module 13: developmental issues, prenatal development, and the newborn. The three major issues that developmental psychologists examine, are physical, cogniive, and social development across the lifespan, with a focus on three major issues: o o o. Developmental psychology: a branch of psychology that studies physical, cogniive, and social change throughout the life span. The human brain does experience growth spurts during childhood and puberty that correspond roughly to piaget"s stages. And stage theories contribute a developmental perspecive on the whole life span, by suggesing how people of one age think and act diferently when they arrive at a later age. In some ways, we all change with age. Changes over ime can occur without changing a person"s posiion relaive to others of the same age. The hard-driving young adult may mellow by later life, yet sill be a relaively driven senior ciizen.