PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Longitudinal Study, Hearing Aid, James Marcia

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

Document Summary

Human development: development the sequence of age-related changes that occur as a person progress from conception to death. An orderly cumulative process things build upon each other. 2 themes: transition look at how people evolve through transitions over time, continuity try to understand continuity with the past. As the fetus reaches the age of viability around 22-26 weeks. Environmental factors: maternal drug use may have a variety of negative effects on prenatal development, maternal illness can interfere with prenatal development. Genital herpes and aids can be passed to newborns at birth: maternal malnutrition increases newborns" risk for birth complications and neurological deficits, emotional state of the mother and noisy environments are also factors. Motor control moves from the mouth outward: centre-outward direction (proximodal trend, sudden burst of growth accompanied by restlessness and irritability, attributed mostly to maturation but environment plays a role; not only genetics, developmental norms and benchmarks.