In-Class notes ?13: Chapter 4 ? The Developing Person Three major issues: Prenatal Development and the Newborn prenatal development: zygote, embryo, fetus, teratogens ? Fetal Alcohol Syndrome The Competent Newborn ? rooting reflex, others: -Close-up: how do we know? habituation, novel stimulus Infancy and Childhood Physical development ? brain: neurons, maturation, infant memory (?infantile amnesia?) / retention? -motor development: sequence, but individual differences in timing Cognitive Development ? PIAGET; schemas, assimilation, accommodation, stages and terms (figure 4.1) -sensorimotor: object permanence; stranger anxiety -preoperational ? egocentrism, language, fantasy, expanding theory of mind -- versus autism:
Chapter 4 The Developing Person
In-Class notes ?13: Chapter 4 ? The Developing Person Three major issues: Prenatal Development and the Newborn prenatal development: zygote, embryo, fetus, teratogens ? Fetal Alcohol Syndrome The Competent Newborn ? rooting reflex, others: -Close-up: how do we know? habituation, novel stimulus Infancy and Childhood Physical development ? brain: neurons, maturation, infant memory (?infantile amnesia?) / retention? -motor development: sequence, but individual differences in timing Cognitive Development ? PIAGET; schemas, assimilation, accommodation, stages and terms (figure 4.1) -sensorimotor: object permanence; stranger anxiety -preoperational ? egocentrism, language, fantasy, expanding theory of mind -- versus autism:
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