Post on 05-Jan-2016
Ch. 11: Human Development Across the Life Span
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Progress Before Birth:Prenatal Development
• 3 phases– germinal stage (Zygote) = first 2 weeks
• conception, implantation, formation of placenta
– embryonic stage = 2 weeks – 2 months• formation of vital organs and systems• Heart, spine, brain, arm, legs, hands, feet, fingers,
toes, eyes & ears. Most miscarriage occur and birth defects.
– fetal stage = 2 months – birth• bodily growth continues, movement capability
begins, brain cells multiply, sex organs develop• age of viability. 22-26 weeks
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Union of Egg & Sperm
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Genetic Influences
• X- Chromosomes– sex chromosome found in both males & females– females have two, males have one– an X-chromosome from each parent produces a
female
• Y-Chromosomes– sex chromosome found only in males– when paired with a X-chromosome from the
mother, it produces a male child
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Progress Before Birth:Prenatal Development
• Prenatal Period 9 complete months (40 weeks)– 1 in 5 pregnancies end before the women is aware she
pregnant.– Placenta. Allows oxygen and nutrients to pass through the
fetus
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Environmental FactorsPrenatal Development
Maternal nutritionMalnutrition linked to increased risk of birth complications, neurological problems, and psychopathology
Teratogens agents that can reach the embryo or fetus
during prenatal development & cause harm-Chemical, alcohol, some medicines, cocaine,
nicotine, viral
Fetal Alcohol Syndromephysical & cognitive abnormalities
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The Childhood Years: Motor Development
• Rooting Reflex: tendency to turn head, open mouth & search for nipple when touched on the cheek
• Grasping Reflex: infants can hold there own body weight– Cephalocaudal trend – head to foot– Proximodistal trend – center-outward
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Infancy & Childhood
• Maturation: biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, uninfluenced by experience
• Developmental norms – median age– Cultural variations
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Easy and Difficult Babies:Differences in Temperament
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Temperament- Mood, activity level & emotional reactivity (established by 2-3 months old)
Thomas, Chess, and Birch (1970)3 basic temperamental styles
easy – 40%slow-to-warm-up – 15%difficult – 10%mixed – 35%stable over time
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Early Emotional Development: Attachment
• Attachment- close emotional bonds of affection. Develop around 6-8 months old
• Evolutionary Perspective- Attachment styles correlate to adult patterns in romantic relationships
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Social Development
• Critical Period an optimal period shortly after birth when a organism’s exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development
• Imprinting the process that certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life
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Harry Harlow: Attachment Preferences
• Surrogate Mother Experiment: monkeys prefer contact with comfortable cloth mother, even while feeding from the nourishing wire mother
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Early Emotional Development: Attachment
• Separation anxiety- Peaks around 14-18 months– Ainsworth (1979). Relationship between infant &
mother (caretaker)– The strange situation and patterns of
attachment• Secure• Anxious-ambivalent• Avoidant
• Developing secure attachment– Bonding at birth– Daycare– Cultural factors
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Ainsworth Separation Anxiety
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Stage Theories of Development: Personality
• Stage theories, three components– progress through stages in order– progress through stages related to age– major discontinuities in development
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Stage Theories of Development
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Stage Theories: Cognitive Development
• Jean Piaget (1920s-1980s)– 4 stages and major milestones
• Sensorimotor Birth-2– Object permanence
• Preoperational 2-7– Centration: 1 thing @ a time
– Irreversibilty: unable to rewind
– Egocentrism: unable to share others views
• Concrete Operational 7-11– Decentration, Reversibility, & Conservation
• Formal Operational 11<– Abstraction
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Piaget
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Piaget’s Stage Theory
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Piaget’s Conservation Task
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The gradual mastery of conservation
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Cognitive Development• Schema- framework that organizes &
interprets info• Assimilation- Interpreting new experiences in
terms of mental structures without changing them.
• Accommodation- Changing existing mental
structures to explain new experiences. • Habituation- A gradual reduction in strength of a
response when presented repeatedly.
• Dishabituation- If a new stimulus elicits am increase in strength of an habituated response.
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The Development of Moral Reasoning– Kohlberg Reasoning as opposed to behavior:
• Moral dilemmas: Measured nature & progression of moral reasoning
– 3 levels, each with 2 sublevels• Preconventional (Stages 1&2)
– Acts are wrong b/c they are punished » Stop b/c you fear a ticket
– Acts are right b/c they lead to positive consequences» Stop b/c you wont get into an accident
• Conventional (Stages 3&4)– Acts are determined by other’s approval/disapproval
» Stop b/c you want to be a good citizen
– Rules become internalized & viewed as absolute» Stop b/c it’s right
• Postconventional (Stages 5&6)– Rules are less rigid & show some flexibity
» Slow down, not stopping (no one will catch you)
– Allows for the possibility that you might not comply with society’s rules b/c it conflicts w/ personal ethics
» Don’t stop b/c you feel there’s no point no one will get hurt& no one» is watching Human
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Kohlberg’s Stage Theory
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Adolescence: Physiological Changes
• Primary Sex Characteristics body structures that make sexual reproduction possible
• ovaries- female• testes- male• external genitalia
• Secondary Sex Characteristics
nonreproductive sexual characteristics• female- enlarged breast, hips• male- voice quality, body hair
• Menarche first menstrual period
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Physical development at Puberty
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Adolescence: Neural Changes
• Increasing myelinization• Synaptic pruning• Changes in prefrontal cortex
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The Search for Identity
• Erik Erikson (1968)– Key challenge - forming a sense of identity– Eight stages spanning the lifespan– Psychosocial crises determining balance
between opposing polarities in personality
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Erikson’s Stage Theory
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Search for Identity
• James Marcia (1988)– 4 identity statuses
• Foreclosure: identity based on parents• Moratorium: undecided • Identity Diffusion: Refuse to identify• Identity Achievement: Achieve your own identity
based on actual research/experience
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Adulthood
• Personality Development. (Stable until 50)– Midlife Crisis
• Transitions in Family Life– “U” Shaped Martial Bliss– Between Families
• Aging & Physical Changes– Physical Changes– Vision & Hearing– Hormonal Functioning– Dementia
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The Expanse of Adulthood
• Social Clock the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, & retirement
• Crystallized Intelligence accumulated knowledge & verbal skills, increases w/ age
• Fluid Intelligence ability to reason speedily & abstractly, decreases during late adulthood
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