PSY 0010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, John Bowlby, Prenatal Development
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Developmental psychology: the study of continuity and change across the life span. Adolescence: the stage at which children become both independent and sexual creatures. Prenatal stage of development ends when you are born. Motor behaviors generally emerge in an orderly sequence but not on a strict timetable: the timing of these behaviors is influences by many factors infant"s incentive for reaching body weight. Piaget suggests that children move through discrete stages of cognitive development. Cognitive development: the emergence of the ability to think and understand: between infancy and adulthood children must come to understand 3 important things. Infant experiences world through movement and sense develops schemas, begins to act intentionally, and shows evidence of understanding object permanence. Child acquires motor skills but does not understand conservation of physical properties. Child begins this stage this stage of thinking egocentrically but ends with a basic understanding of other minds.
