1. Developmental Psychology

2. Activity
Milestones
Though theories of development may be very different, all share in common having milestones.
What are some of the important milestones in your life and the lives of others? DISCUSS with classmates

3. Activity
Which milestones would you say are important steps in development and which aren't?

4. Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology examines how people are continually developing- physically, cognitively, and socially-from birth to death.

5. Source: http://www.eruptingmind.com/what-is-developmental-psychology/
Introduction
Nature versus nurture
Continuity and stages
Cognitive development
Motor development
Stability and change
Source:

6. Zygote, Embryo, & Fetus 1st two weeks 2 weeks - 9 weeks
9 weeks - birth

7. Zygote, Embryo, & Fetus
Zygote - a fertilized egg with full set of genes
Embryo
From about two weeks after conception to three months after conception (most of first trimester)
Organs begin to form; heartbeat
Fetus
Three months after conception to birth (second and third trimesters)
Organs continue to form; response to sounds

8. TAIL bone
No, this is NOT photoshopped. Some babies are born with tails.
Typically they are removed by surgeons.
Why do you think we call it a "tail bone" ?

9. Try not to use your notes
Answer the questions
Try not to use your notes
What is the order of prenatal growth?
When the zygote attaches to wall of the Uterus it is known as?
At what stage does the heart begin to form?
Three months after conception to birth is called what stage?

10. Teratogens
Any agent that causes a structural abnormality following fetal exposure during pregnancy
Cocaine, alcohol, STDs, radiation
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Occurs in children of women who consume large amounts of alcohol during pregnancy
Symptoms include facial deformities, heart defects, stunted growth, and cognitive impairments

11. How can teratogens affect prenatal development?
Answer the question
How can teratogens affect prenatal development?

12. New Born

13. New Born Reflexes
Reflexes: sucking, swallowing, grasping, walking, and rooting
Rooting Reflex
Baby turns its head toward something that brushes its cheek and gropes around with mouth

14. Answer
How can the rooting reflex help with a babies survival?

15. Pair, Share, and TWEET
What are the three big ways developmental psychology is studied?
What are the three prenatal stages and what occurs during them?
How can teratogens affect a babies development?
What is the rooting reflex?
On a small piece of paper, in 140 characters or less TWEET an answer to one of the following questions.
Example: Make sure ur #babymama sticks w/the virgin drinks. Keep those #teratogens at bay. No more cognitive impairments #fetalalcoholsyndrome

16. Temperament Three basic types of babies Easy
child's personal style of dealing and interacting with their surroundings
Three basic types of babies
Easy
Good-natured, easy to care for, adaptable
Difficult
Moody and intense, react to new situations and people negatively and strongly
Slow-to-warm-up
Inactive and slow to respond to new things, and when they do react, it is mild
Temperament: characteristic patterns of emotional reactions and emotional self-regulation

17. Temperament Survey
PROJECT the Survey

18. Temperament Survey
For numbers 6, 18, 19 reverse the number. For example if you put 1 for number 6, than change it to 5 (5=1, 4=2, 3=3, 2=4, 1=5)
Activity – add scores 2, 7, 10, 17
Sociability – add scores 1, 6, 15, 20
Distress – add scores 4, 9, 11, 16
Fear – add scores 3, 12, 14, 19
Anger – add scores 5, 8, 13, 18
Emotionality

19. Temperament Survey
Emotionality refers to the intensity of emotional reactions.
Activity represents a person’s general level of energy output.
Sociability relates to a persons tendency to affiliate and interact with other

20. Temperaments can change with due to babies environment

21. Sensory Learning
In addition to reflexes present at birth, infants also have the ability to learn
Habituation - basic type of learning involving decreased response to a stimulus judged to be of no importance/novelty
Visual learning
Olfactory learning
Auditory learning
Taste

22. Habituation Activity

23. Physical Development Brain Development
Immature nervous system at birth...develops rapidly.
Maturation = physical, intellectual, or emotional process of development that enables orderly changes in behavior as a function of passage of time
Uninfluenced by experience.
Maturation sets the basis course of development , and experiences adjust it.
Neural Networks

24. Physical Development Maturation and Infant Memory
What is your earliest memory?
How old were you?
Infantile amnesia
Earliest conscious memories seldom predate our third birthday.
We do know that infants under the age of three do process information, they just don’t have the neural connections in our brains to remember it
What part of your brain do you believe hasn’t fully developed/matured yet that could lead to this?

25. Physical Development Motor Development
Mostly universal in motor development
Individual differences in timing
Maturation ---- Child must be ready

26. Physical Development Milestones
2 months – able to lift head up on his own
3 months – can roll over
4 months – can sit propped up without falling over
6 months – is able to sit up without support
7 months – begins to stand while holding on to things for support
9 months – can begin to walk, still using support
10 months – is able to momentarily stand on her own without support
11 months – can stand alone with more confidence
12 months – begin walking alone without support
14 months – can walk backward without support
17 months – can walk up steps with little or no support
18 months – able to manipulate objects with feet while walking, such as kicking a ball

27. QUICK WRITE
Write as quickly and accurately as you can an answer to the following question. I will give you 1 minutes to write down an answer. The person with the most words (that are accurate) is the WINNER!
Describe what maturation means in your own words and how it effects motor and memory development.