PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Synaptic Pruning, Dishabituation, Metamemory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jennifer Steeves

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Chapter 11: human development across the life span. This reflects their level of engagement which effects level of attachment. (mary ainsworth)-> they are also amazed of changes as their children grow. Ex: emily carr asked young child to describe creative art. I think, and then i draw a line round my think. children grasp things differently more quickly and adequately than adults. Development: is the sequence of age-related changes that occur as a person progresses from conception to death. (cumulative process that includes both biological and behaviour changes) Four periods: prenatal period (between conception and birth-9 months, childhood, adolescence, adulthood. Conception occurs when fertilization= zygote: a one celled organism formed by the union of a sperm and an egg. Chromosomes passed on by parents found in nucleus, containing genes. Prenatal development -remarkably rapid: germinal stage: first phase, first 2 weeks after conception.