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| When an egg and sperm unite at conception, gender is determined at that point |
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| A developing human about 2 weeks after conception, males being to secrete testosterone |
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| Developing human after 8 weeks until birth |
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When do these start to develop:
-Brain
-neurons
-axons/dendrites/myelination
neurogenesis |
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Brain: Begins to develop in 3rd week
Neurons: 6 months
Axons...:lasts until about 18-21 years of age
-Neurogenesis: Lasts entire lifetime |
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Things that can effect a human brain
Ex: Alcohol, nicotine |
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| When fetus can hear, see, chemosense, bondging to parents begin |
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| Tendency for infants to orient to stimuli that are either novel (new face) or else biologically important (mother's face if hungry) |
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| Can be used to look at infant's ability to learn, to test perceptual sensitivity |
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| Present from birth, can associate a sound with a particular place in space |
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| Rules acquired via experience that guides and changes a child's behavior |
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Nature: Innate
Nurture: Generate their own responses to stimuli |
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Best known theorist about cognitive development in childhood and andolescence
-Noted ther were age-specific petterns of mistakes that children made
-concluded there was common way that children think at different ages due to biological development and in the experiences children have at each age |
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1st of Piaget's 4 stages of cognitive development
-motor developement, cephaolocaudal and proximodistal rules
-0-2=completely egocentric, develop object permanence
-Assimilation: Apply Schema to explore different aspects of the world
-Accommodation: Altering schemas to fit experiences
Attachment: Lack of social attachment leads to serious behavioral pathology as humans grow up |
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2nd Stage of Cognitive Developement -2-6 years,
-Symbolism developes, still highly egocentric
-Morality begins, based on punishment or not |
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3rd Stage of Cognitive Development
-7-12 years
-Conservation emerges (2 glass example)
-Adolescent morality controlled by social rules (Socially acceptable?) |
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4th stage of Con Development
-12-Adulthood
-Abstract logic emerges
-Formal hypothesis testing emerges
-morality is now based on a person's core beliefs |
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