Developmental Psychology

By nguyencarol

  • Conception

    Pre-natal
    - wk5 - 8 Embryo : Differation : forms heart, brain, spinal cord
    - wk8 : fetus
    - 1st trimester : wk1 - 12
    - 2nd trimester : wk13 - 27
    - 3rd trimester : wk28-40
  • Period: to

    Philip Z.

  • Birth

  • 1 month

    • responds to sound
    • becomes quiet when picked up
    • vocalizes ocassionally
    • vision, hearing, smellling, touch, sucking, gasping, and taste

  • 6 months

    • lifts cup and bangs it
    • smiles at mirror image
    • reachs for small objects
    • babbling

  • 12 months

    • walks alone
    • says several words

  • 18 months

    • speech has become well developed
    • reflexes and "instictive" behaviors
    • climbs stairs and says many words

  • 2 year old

    • the ability to make mental images
    • sensorimotor stage
    • internal mental representations of objects
    • liberates the child from the present and his or hers immediate surroundings
    • laguage begins to appear

  • 3 - 7 years old

    • Preoperational Stage
    • sense of self as distinctive from other people and objects
    • simple problem solving using mental representation
    • cannot solve problems requiring logical thought
    • Ego