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Life Span Development

Life Span Development. Prenatal and Childhood Development. The Beginnings of Life: Prenatal Development. Prenatal Development. Prenatal defined as “before birth” Prenatal stage begins at conception and ends with the birth of the child. Zygote. A newly fertilized egg

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Life Span Development

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  1. Life Span Development

  2. Prenatal and Childhood Development

  3. The Beginnings of Life: Prenatal Development

  4. Prenatal Development • Prenatal defined as “before birth” • Prenatal stage begins at conception and ends with the birth of the child.

  5. Zygote • A newly fertilized egg • The first two weeks are a period of rapid cell division. • Attaches to the mother’s uterine wall • At the end of 14 days becomes an embryo

  6. Prenatal Development

  7. Embryo • Developing human from about 14 days until the end of the eight week • Most of the major organs are formed during this time. • At the end of the eight week the fetal period begins.

  8. Fetal Period • The period between the beginning of the ninth week until birth

  9. Placenta • A cushion of cells in the mother by which the fetus receives oxygen and nutrition • Acts as a filter to screen out substances that could harm the fetus

  10. Teratogens • Substances that pass through the placenta’s screen and prevent the fetus from developing normally • Includes: radiation, toxic chemicals, viruses, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, etc.

  11. Smoking and Birth Weight

  12. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) • A series of physical and cognitive abnormalities in children due to their mother drinking large amounts of alcohol during pregnancy

  13. The Beginnings of Life: The Newborn

  14. Rooting Reflex • Infants’ tendency, when touched on the cheek, to move their face in the direction of the touch and open their mouth • Is an automatic, unlearned response • Child is looking for nourishment.

  15. Temperament • A person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity • A child might be: • An “easy” or “difficult” baby • Temperament shown in infancy appears to carry through a person’s life.

  16. Physical Development in Infancy and Childhood

  17. Infant, Toddler, Child • Infant: First year • Toddler: From about 1 year to 3 years of age • Child: Span between toddler and teen

  18. Physical Development in Infancy and Childhood: The Developing Brain

  19. Neural Development

  20. Maturation • Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior

  21. Physical Development in Infancy and Childhood: Motor Development

  22. Motor Development • Includes all physical skills and muscular coordination

  23. Motor Development

  24. Cognitive Development in Infancy and Childhood: Piaget’s Cognitive Stages

  25. Cognition • All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering • Children think differently than adults do

  26. Jean Piaget (pee-ah-ZHAY) • Developmental psychologist who introduced a stage theory of cognitive development • Proposed a theory consisting of four stages of cognitive development

  27. Schemas • Concepts or mental frameworks that people use to organize and interpret information • Sometimes called schemes • A person’s “picture of the world”

  28. Assimilation • Interpreting a new experience within the context of one’s existing schemas • The new experience is similar to other previous experiences

  29. Accommodation • Interpreting a new experience by adapting or changing one’s existing schemas • The new experience is so novel the person’s schemata must be changed to accommodate it

  30. Assimilation/Accommodation

  31. Assimilation/Accommodation

  32. Assimilation/Accommodation

  33. Typical Age Range Description of Stage Developmental Phenomena Birth to nearly 2 years Sensorimotor Experiencing the world through senses and actions (looking, touching, mouthing) • Object permanence • Stranger anxiety About 2 to 6 years Preoperational Representing things with words and images but lacking logical reasoning • Pretend play • Egocentrism • Language development About 7 to 11 years Concrete operational Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations • Conservation • Mathematical transformations About 12 through adulthood Formal operational Abstract reasoning • Abstract logic • Potential for moral reasoning Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

  34. Sensorimotor Stage • Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development • From birth to about age two • Child gathers information about the world through senses and motor functions • Child learns object permanence

  35. Object Permanence • The awareness that things continue to exist even when they cannot be sensed • “Out of sight, out of mind”

  36. Preoperational Stage • Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development • From about age 2 to age 6 or 7 • Children can understand language but not logic

  37. Egocentrism • The child’s inability to take another person’s point of view • Includes a child’s inability to understand that symbols can represent other objects

  38. Concrete Operational Stage • Piaget’s third stage of cognitive development • From about age 7 to 11 • Child learns to think logically and understands conservation

  39. Conservation • An understanding that certain properties remain constant despite changes in their form • The properties can include mass, volume, and numbers.

  40. Conservation

  41. Conservation

  42. Conservation

  43. Types of Conservation Tasks

  44. Formal Operational Stage • Piaget’s fourth and last stage of cognitive development • Child can think logically and in the abstract • About age 12 on up • Can solve hypothetical problems (What if…. problems)

  45. Cognitive Development in Infancy and Childhood: Assessing Piaget

  46. Assessing Piaget’s Theory • Piaget underestimated the child’s ability at various ages. • Piaget’s theory doesn’t take into account culture and social differences.

  47. Social Development in Infancy and Childhood

  48. Stranger Anxiety • The fear of strangers an infant displays around 8 months of age

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