[PSYC 1010] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (34 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

Document Summary

Chapter 11- human development across the life span. Development the sequence of age-related changes that occur as a person progresses from conception to death. 4 major periods: prenatal, childhood, adolescence, adulthood. Conception occurs when fertilization creates a zygote one celled organism formed by the union of an egg and sperm. Prenatal period period from conception to birth, usually encompassing nine months of pregnancy. 3 phases: germinal stage, embryonic stage, fetal stage. The first phase of prenatal development, encompassing the first 2 weeks after conception. Zygote has cell division going on move along the mother"s fallopian tubes and stick on the uterine wall. Placenta a structure that allows oxygen and nutrients to pass into the fetus from the mother"s bloodstream and bodily wastes to pass out to mother. Blood cells do not get exchanged thin membrane that separates the two bloodstreams. The second phase of prenatal development, lasting from 2 weeks until the end of the second month.