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Chapter 3Development –
Infancy and Childhood
Development Psychology Womb to tomb
Study of age-related changes in behavior and mental processes
Nature vs NutureBiggest debate in psychology
Nature – what you were born with
Nuture – how you are raised and affected by your environment
NewbornsAt birth – can see, hear and respond
Grasping ReflexClinging response when hand is touched
Rooting ReflexWhen touched around mouth baby will turn toward
touch and suck
SIDSSudden Infant Death Syndrome
#1 cause of death during first year
Theory – nervous system fails to turn reflex into voluntary action to breath
Back to sleep campaign
Physical DevelopmentAve. birth weight – 7.3lbs (5.5lbs – 10 lbs)
14lb baby born in Mexico (Jan 2007) “Super Tonio”Biggest Ever – 23 lbs. (1879) Died shortly after birth
Perceptual DevelopmentPrefer human faces
and patterns
Benefit from parents touch
Visual Cliff Experiment
Language DevelopmentDebate is it learned or inherited
Critical PeriodA window of opportunity for learning a skillImpriniting
Language DevelopmentImprinting
Process that occurs at a preset time in development, when the brain is ready
Mama Dada
Language Development
1 yr – Babbling
2 yrs - vocab 500-1500 words
Telegraphic SpeechWords are left out but meaning is clear
Some grammar“Daddy goed”
Genie: “The Wild Child Turn to page 69 in your
book
Read about Genie