september 17, 2014
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Prenatal to ToddlerTRANSCRIPT
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
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
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
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