DevelopmentPrenatal and Infancy

What happens in the womb does NOT stay in the womb

Germinal Period (0-2 weeks)

Resistant to external factors,

but

Susceptible to spontaneous miscarriage

Embryonic Period (3-8 weeks)

Critical

Embryonic Period (3-8 weeks)

Central Nervous System

Brain

Eyes

Ears

Mouth/Palate

Other Bad Things

Teratogens

Illness

Fetal

Alcohol

Syndrome

Fetal Period (12-38 Weeks)

Physical Structure

Brain starts to detect and respond

Good Things

Speech

Music

Healthy Food

Social Attachment

Your first relationship: With yourself

Your Next Relationship: The first person you touch and see and smell

MOMMY

http://youtube.com/v/PclvpXg8CBc

Harlow’s Monkey

Raised by Dogs

Critical Brain Development

Neural Connections develop and strengthen

Use It or Lose It - refined connections based on experience

Stimulation is CRITICAL

http://youtube.com/v/4hY7NtAYtcw

http://youtube.com/v/aXV-yaFmQNk

Effect of Neglect

http://www.today.com/video/today/46731704#46731704

Piaget’s Stages

Sensorimotor

Pre-operational

Concrete Operations

Formal Operations

Sensorimotor:Birth - 2 yr

Motor exploration

Eat those hands and feet

First Mental representations(schemas)

Update Schemas: learning new facts about objects

http://youtube.com/v/XgMPV3slCis

Preoperational2-7 yr

Lack of conservation

Centration: Only one detail at a time.

Egocentrism: If the box is no my head, no one sees me.

Concrete Operations7-12 yr

Law of Conservation

Actions are reversible (especially when they have been naughty ;-)

Nothing abstract

Formal Operations12 yr and up

Morals

Right vs wrong

Abstract reasoning

Problem solving

Language DevelopmentFrom sounds to bigger sounds

to words to phrases to sentences

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From phonemes to morphemes, to words to phrases to sentences

Phoneme

Hello

H E LL O

Morpheme

Hell O

Word

Hello

Phrase (Telegraphic speech)

Hello how you

Sentence

Hello how are you today