PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nutrition And Pregnancy, Prenatal Development, Longitudinal Study

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Kim O

Document Summary

Progress before birth: prenatal development: germinal stage: first 2 weeks (zygote, conception, implantation, formation of placenta, prenatal development begins with the germinal stage, lasting from conception to about two weeks. During the early parts of this stage, the muscles and bones begin to form. At 22 or 23 weeks, chances for survival are slim, but by 26 28 weeks chances improve to a survival rate of about 85%. Nevertheless, the similarities across cultures outweigh the differences, illustrating the importance of maturation. Early emotional development: attachment: separation anxiety, ainsworth (1979), the strange situation and pattern of attachment, secure, anxious-ambivalent, avoidant, disorganized/disoriented, developing secure attachment, bonding at birth, cultural factors, evolutionary perspectives on attachment. This results in animism, the belief that all things are living, just like oneself: centration, egocentrism, concrete operational, characterized by the ability to perform operations with symbolic thought such as reversing or mentally undoing an action.