PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Social Skills, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Romanian Orphans

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Developmental psychology"s major issues: nature vs nurture, continuity and stages. What parts are gradual and what parts change abruptly: stability and change. Immediately after birth newborns prefer their mothers voice and language. French babies cry with french intonation babies start learning language within the womb. Tetrogens can slip through the placenta and damage the embryo/fetus (fetal alc. Syndrome) alcohol depresses activity in the fetus" central nervous systems putting it at risk for heavy drinking in it"s teens. Alcohol may have an epigenetic effect on the fetus. (marks dna) Habituation- a decrease in responding with repeated stimuli. In babies: researchers places vibrating device on woman"s abdomen, baby later gets used to the sound, bringing about questions of what the newborns remember. Study: 4 month olds were shown a series of dog or cat photos, then a hybrid of the two. The hybrid captured more looking time from the infants.