PSY 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fallopian Tube, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Prenatal Development
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Developmental psychology: the study of continuity and change across the lifespan. The prenatal environment: the womb is an environment that has powerful impact on development, teratogens agents from the mother"s environment that impair development, including drugs, tobacco, and alcohol. Cognitive development: definition: the emergence of the ability to think and understand, children begin to understand how the physical world works, how their minds represent the world, and how other minds represent the world. Jean piaget"s four stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor (birth 2 years) Major distinction between: concrete operational stage (6-11 years old) Preoperational and concrete: children learn how actions ( operations ) can transform the physical world, conservation: spreading out does not change quantity. Operational stages: the way the world appears is not necessarily the way it is: formal operational stage (11+ years) children develop the ability to think and reason about abstract concepts.
