PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Jean Piaget, Congenital Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Developmental psychology: field where researchers study the change from the moment from conception to death. Study how we change emotionally, physically, behaviourally, morally, cognitively: development patterns of changes that begin at conception and continue throughout the life span. Has a plateau where nothing happens then another stage with another burst of change. Continuity changes happen bit by bit over time. B. 1 the three stages of prenatal development: the gestation period from the moment of conception to the moment of birth (3 stages, the germinal stage first two weeks after conception, is called a zygote. The zygote will travel down the fallopian tubes into the uterus. This marks the end of the germinal stage: the embryonic stage from week 3 to week 8. The baby will be called embryo, the placenta and umbilical cord will form. Get blood, oxygen, eliminate waste through umbilical cord. The embryo will continue to divide and multiply, the heart will form and start beating.