PSYC-105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Muscle Tone, Body Proportions, Lev Vygotsky

• School: MacEwan University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC-105
• Professor: Tara Vongpaisal

Document Summary

Psyc 105: textbook chapter 10 notes, human development: how and why we change . Lilienfeld, s. , lynn, s. , namy, l. , woolf, n. j. , cramer, k. , & schmaltz, r. (2017). Nature vs nurture: hoc fallacy, the assumption that two factors are inherently related because they are both present in a situation, biodirectional influences, understanding that factors that influence development are not unidirectional. Physical and motor developnment: prenatal: time of development before birth, stages of development. Zygote begins to divides and eventually doubles becoming a blastocyst. Embryo: the result of a blastocyst that has began to divide and form specialized cells. This is when development can easily be compromised and often when miscarriage occurs. For the rest of the pregnancy the fetus"s job is not to continue to develop physically. Neurons in the brain will continue to develop and eventually begin to sort into the hippocampus and the cerebellum: disruption to normal fetal development. Exposure to harmful substances or other environmental factors.