Chapter 3
Prenatal Development and Birth
PowerPoints developed by Jenni Fauchier
Butchered by Professor Carney
PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT

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The Course of Prenatal Development
• Fertilization to birth
• Prenatal development lasts
approximately 266 days

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Fertilization
• Zygote
• Egg & sperm fuse
• Create a single cell

• 23 unpaired chromosomes from egg & sperm
• Form 1 set of 23 paired chromosomes

• 1 chromosome of each pair
•
•

mother’s egg
father’s sperm

• Each parent contributes 1/2 of offspring’s
genetic material
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Zygote

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The Germinal Period
Egg goes from ovary through fallopian tube (uterine tube)

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The Germinal Period
•

Creation of zygote (fertilized egg)
•

Mature human egg
•

•

23 chromosomes

Mature human sperm
•

•

23 chromosomes

Egg fertilized by sperm
•

Creates zygote

•

46 chromosomes
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•

The Germinal Period
Sperm race to egg
• 1 wins…usually.

• Makes way to egg by smell
• Once sperm penetrates
• Chemical released
• Prevents other sperm from entering

• 2 penetrate
• Possible miscarriage
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The Germinal Period
• Blastocyst
• inner layer of cells
• develops into embryo

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The Germinal Period
• Trophoblast (like trophy)
• outer layer of cells
• nourishes embryo

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The Germinal Period
• Blastocyst

• Inner mass of cells
• Eventually develop into the embryo

• Trophoblast

• Outer layer of cells
• Will provide nutrition & support for embryo

• Implantation

• Attachment of zygote to uterine wall
• 10 - 14 days after conception

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2. The Embryonic Period

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The Embryonic Period
• 2 - 8 weeks after conception

• Rate of cell differentiation intensifies
• Begins as the blastocyst attaches to
uterine wall
• Every body part eventually develops
from these 3 layers
• endoderm = Internal body parts
• ectoderm = Surface parts
• mesoderm = Parts surrounding internal
organs
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2. The Embryonic Period
• We looked at cells of the zygote in the
germinal period
• Now:
• Cells of the embryonic period

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Embryo
3 Layers of Cells

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• The mass of cells is an embryoPeriod
The Embryonic
• Organogenesis -- the process of organ
formation during the first 2 mo’s of
prenatal development
• organs are especially vulnerable to
environmental influences

• Life-support systems for embryo develop
rapidly

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The Fetal Period
• Fetal period begins 2 mo’s after
conception & lasts for 7 mo’s
• 3 mo.'s after conception
• Fetus 3” long; weighs 3 ounces

• At birth, average American baby:
• 7 ½ lbs & 20” long

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• Don’t let them fool you….nothing works
to stop the excruciating pain!
• It was all invented by a man!

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The Course of Prenatal Development

The Brain
• At birth – 100 billion neurons
• Basic architecture assembled
•

1st 2 trimesters

• Neural tube: first 18–24 days
•

Forms the spinal cord

•

Neural Tube Defects
•

Effect so severe, won’t show you

•

Defect tied to nutrition
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Neural Tube Defects

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HAZARDS TO PRENATAL
DEVELOPMENT
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Hazards to Prenatal Development

Some General Principles

• Teratogen

• Any agent that causes a birth defect
• Severity & type of defect affected by
•
•
•

Dose
Genetic susceptibility
Time of exposure

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Some General Principles
• All drugs (prescribed, illegal) can have
effects on unborn fetus
• Antibiotics, analgesics, asthma medications
• 1961: thalidomide tragedy

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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Hazards to Prenatal Development

Psychoactive Drugs

• Psychoactive drugs

• Act on nervous system & change
moods
• Alter states of conscious, modify
perceptions
• Extent of risk & harm varies

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Your Doctor Wants You to Smoke 1951

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Nicotine (March of Dimes longitudinal
study, 2011)

• – Heart defects
– Absence or severe underdevelopment of
hands, feet, radius, tibia, ulna or fibula
– Missing fused or extra fingers or toes
– Clubfoot
– Cleft lip or palate
– Eye defects
– Gastrointestinal defects
• Baby more likely
• 2 or more defects

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Teratogens and Timing of Their Effects
on Prenatal Development
Zygote
1 2
Most
serious
damage
from
teratogens
in first 2–8
weeks

Embryonic period (wks)
3
4
5
6 7 8

Central nervous system
Heart
Arms
Eyes
Legs
Ears

Period of susceptibility
to structural defects
Period of susceptibility
to functional defects
Fig. 3.7 (modified)

Fetal Period (wks)
9 16 32 38

Teeth
Palate
External genitalia

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Hazards to Prenatal Development

Maternal Diseases
• Diseases & infections cross placenta barrier
• Rubella (German measles)
• Diabetes

• Sexually transmitted infections
• Syphilis, Genital herpes
• AIDS, HIV infection

• New medications & vaccines available
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Hazards to Prenatal Development

Other Maternal Factors
• Maternal diet, nutrition, & weight
• Folic acid & iron
• Fish: PCBs & mercury levels

• Maternal age
• Highest risks: adolescents, over 35 years
• Down syndrome

• Maternal emotional states

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Hazards to Prenatal Development

Parental Factors
• Paternal factors
• Father’s diet & low vitamin C
• Drug use effects on sperm
• Smoking – effects of second-hand smoke
• Father’s age at conception
• Birth defects: dwarfism, Marfan’s Syndrome

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Hazards to Prenatal Development

Environmental Hazards
• Father’s exposure to lead, radiation
• X-ray radiation
• Pollutants & toxin wastes
• Fertilizers & pesticides
• Lead-based paints
• Petrochemicals
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• Why father’s exposure causes harm?
Cephalocaudal
• Cap
• Growth starts at
the top & moves
downward.
Patterns of Growth
• 1. Cephalocaudal (Physical growth)
• Sequence in which earliest growth always
occurs at top, beginning with head
• Physical growth
• Brain & eyes grow faster than jaw
• Differentiation of features
Proximodistal
• Penis
• Sorry, all I could
think of.

• Proximodistal
• Growth starts at
center & moves
outward
Patterns of Growth
• Proximodistal (Sensory & motor
development)
• Sequence in which growth starts at
center of body & moves toward
extremities
• Sensory & motor development
• Control muscles of trunk & arms before
hands
Age 1 to 2 Years
• 2 years
•
•
•
•
•

@ 26 - 32 lbs.
Gain ¼ - ½ lb. per mo.
@ 1/5 adult weight
Average infant is 32 - 35“ tall
@ 1/2 of eventual adult height
Rapid Brain Development
Shaken Baby Syndrome
• Blindness
• Majority
• Neurological or
mental disability
• Cerebral Palsy
• Mental
retardation
Neuron
Neurons
•
•
•
•
•

Axon
Dendrites
Myelin sheath
Terminal buttons
Synapses
Neurons
• Axon
• Carries signals
away from cell
body

• Dendrites
• Carry signals
toward cell body
Neurons
• Myelin sheath
• Layer of fat cells
• Provides
insulation
• Helps electrical
signals travel
faster down axon
Neurons
• Terminal buttons
• Release
neurotransmitters
into synapses

• Synapses
• Tiny gaps between
neurons' fibers

• Born with 100 billion
neurons
Synapse
Changes in Brain Regions
• 1st yr.'s of life
• Neurons change in 2 significant ways
• 1. Myelination
• 2. Increase in neural pathways
Changes in Brain Regions
• Neurons 2 significant changes
• 1st years of life.
• 1. Myelination
• Covering of axons
• Speeds up & insulates transmission
• Continues into adolescence.

• 2. Increase in neural pathways
• Twice as many made than will ever be used.
How Do Infants Grow and Develop
Physically?

The Development of Dendrite
Spreading

At birth

1 month

3 months

15 months

24 months
Changes in Brain Regions
• Heredity & environment
• Influence synaptic overproduction &
subsequent retraction
• Hereditary:
• Genes

• Environment
• Stimulating environment vs. boring

• Retraction:
Use it or lose it.
Changes in Brain Regions
• Blooming
(development or
increase) in
neurons
• Greatest density of
brain cells
synapses by age 3.
Changes in Brain Regions
• Pruning (decrease) in
neurons

• Unused connections
replaced by or
disappear
• Vary by brain region
• Begins @ early
adolescence & ends @
age 16.
Changes in Brain Regions
• Prefrontal cortex
•
•
•

Higher-level thinking
Self-regulation
Not fully developed until @ 23 yrs.
SLEEP
Sleep Across the Human Life Span
24
16

Total daily sleep (hours)

14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1-15
days

Newborn

6
mo

12
mo

18
mo

Infants

2
yrs

10
yrs

20
yrs

Children Adolescents

30
yrs

Adults

40
yrs

50
yrs

60
yrs

70
yrs

Older adults

80
yrs

90
yrs
Sleep
• Individual variation in infants sleep
• Typical newborn
• 16 - 17 hrs day
• Times & patterns vary

•
•
•

More time in REM
By 3 mo’s, % of x in REM sleep decreases
By 4 mo. close to adult patterns
• Awake day
• Sleep night
Dynamic Systems Theory
• Dynamic Systems Theory
•
•

Motor development
When motivated, might create a new motor
behavior
• Ex: Walking
• Need to have maturation of nervous system
• Motivation to move
• Grab a bottle
• Practice makes walking smoother & more effective
Dynamic Systems Theory Mastering a
New Skill
• Example Walking:
•
•
•

Motivated by new challenge
Partially accomplishes task
“Fine tunes” movements
• Smoother
• More effective
Dynamic Systems Theory
Mastering a New Skill
• “Tuning”
• Achieved through repeated cycles
• Action
• Perception of consequences of action
• Practice

• Ex: Walking
• Child gets bottle when reaches mom.
Gross Motor Skills
Gross Motor Skills
• Skills that involve large-muscle activities
• Sitting upright without support
• 6 - 7 mo’s

• Crawling
• 8 ½ mo’s

• Standing with support
• 8 months

• Walking
• 12 months
Gross Motor Development
2nd Year
• Toddlers become more mobile
• 13 – 18 months

• Can pull toy attached to a string
• Use hands & legs to climb up a number of steps

• 18 – 24 months
•
•
•
•
•

Can walk quickly or run stiffly
Walk backwards without losing balance
Stand & kick a ball without falling
Stand & throw a ball
Jump in place
Fine Motor Skills
• Fine motor skills
• Anything that requires finger dexterity
• Picking up a spoon

• At birth, very little
• 1st 2 yrs refine reaching & grasping
• When grabbing something
• No longer need to watch their hand
• Experience plays a role in reaching & grasping
Sensation & Perception
• Sensation occurs when information
interacts with sensory receptors
•
•
•
•
•

Eyes
Ears
Tongue
Nostrils
Skin

• Perception

• Interpretation of what is sensed
• Color = blue
Ecological View
• Perception
• Functions to bring us in contact with
environment & increase adaptation.
• Designed for action
• When to:
•
•
•

duck
run
reach
Frantz’s Looking Chamber
Visual Preference Method
• Robert Frantz 1963
•
•
•

Frantz’s Looking Chamber
Allowed experimenter to look at infants eyes
Infants look at things for different lengths of
time.
• Infants 2 days old
• Prefer patterns
Frantz’s Looking Chamber
Perception of Pattern and Depth
• Infants prefer look at:

• Normal human face opposed to scrambled
features
• Pretty face
• Bulls-eye target or black & white stripes
• Rather than a plain circle

• Depth perception
• Visual cliff

• Infants develop ability to use binocular (two-eyed)
cues to depth by @ 3 - 4 mo’s
Visual Acuity in Infants
Visual Acuity and Color Vision
• By 1 yr vision
• Approximates that of adult

• Color-sensitive receptors (cones) function by 2
months of age
Hearing, Touch, and Pain
• Prenatally at 7 mo. can hear sounds
• Mother’s voice
• Music

• Immediately after birth
• Cannot hear soft sounds or pitch as well as adults

• Newborns respond to touch & feel pain
• Infants display amazing resiliency
• Several min. after circumcision (performed without
anesthesia)
• Can nurse & interact in a normal manner with mothers
Smell and Taste
• Newborns can differentiate odors

• Sensitivity to taste
• Might be present before birth

• 2 hrs of age
• Different facial expressions when tasted solutions
•
•
•

Sweet
Sour
Bitter

• @ 4 mo. prefer salty tastes
• Newborns found to be aversive
Cognitive Development
• Sensorimotor stage
• Birth to age 2
• Infants learn to coordinate their senses and their
motor behavior.

• Organize world into:
•
•
•

What can I put in my mouth
What is graspable
What makes noise
Sensorimotor Stage
• Object permanence
• Perception that objects continue to exist even
when out of sight.
Sensorimotor Stage
• Self-recognition
•
•
•
•

Towards end of stage
Rouge test Lewis & Brooks 1979
Placed in front of mirror
Touched nose at 18 – 24 months.
Language Development
• All languages, common
characteristics
• Rules

• Describe way language works

• Infinite Generativity

• Can produce endless number of sentences
using a limited set of words & rules
How Language Develops
• Babies communicate by sounds & gestures
• Sequence of 1st year communication
•
•
•
•

1.
2.
3.
4.

Crying
Cooing
Babbling
Gestures
How Language Develops
• 1. Crying:

• Different types

• Can signal distress

• 2. Cooing:

• 1 - 2 mo., gurgling sounds
• Usually express pleasure
• With interaction of caregiver
How Language Develops
• 3. Babbling

• Middle of 1st yr

• Strings of consonant-vowel combinations,
such as “ba, ba, ba, ba”

• 4. Gestures

• 8 - 12 months

• Showing & pointing
• Showing empty cup
• Means fill it
How Language Develops
• First Words
• Receptive vocabulary
• 5 mo.'s may recognize their name
• 13 mo.’s understand 50 words

• Spoken vocabulary
• 13 mo.’s
• Important objects & persons
• Dada
• Ball
• Doggie
How Language Develops
• Spoken vocabulary spurt
• 18 mo. old
• 50 words

• 2 yr. old
• 200 words
How Language Develops
• Overextension
• Dada may mean all men

• Underextension
• Use a word too narrowly
• Boy may mean only boys his age

• Telegraphic speech
Noam Chomsky
• Chomsky's LAD hypothesis
• LAD

• Language Acquisition Device

• Humans prewired to learn language at
certain time
• Able to detect various features & rules
of language
• Behaviorists opposed

• Reinforced for saying Mama
Michael Tomasello
• Behaviorist

• Interaction view of language

• Children learn language in specific
contexts
• Father & baby looking at book
• father points to bird
• son repeats word

• Worldwide children acquire
language same time.
Social Interaction Study, 2 groups of moms & their
18-month-olds

Group 1
• Told to smile & touch
infants immediately
after babies cooed &
babbled

Group 2
• Told to smile & touch
infants in random manner,
unconnected to infants
sounds
Social Interaction Study
• Results
• 1st group
• Afterwards made more complex, speech
like sounds, such as "da" & "gu."

• Underscores?
Class Exercise
• Baby Photos

Life span chapter 3

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    Chapter 3 Prenatal Developmentand Birth PowerPoints developed by Jenni Fauchier Butchered by Professor Carney
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    The Course ofPrenatal Development • Fertilization to birth • Prenatal development lasts approximately 266 days 3
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    Fertilization • Zygote • Egg& sperm fuse • Create a single cell • 23 unpaired chromosomes from egg & sperm • Form 1 set of 23 paired chromosomes • 1 chromosome of each pair • • mother’s egg father’s sperm • Each parent contributes 1/2 of offspring’s genetic material 4
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    The Germinal Period Egggoes from ovary through fallopian tube (uterine tube) 7
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    The Germinal Period • Creationof zygote (fertilized egg) • Mature human egg • • 23 chromosomes Mature human sperm • • 23 chromosomes Egg fertilized by sperm • Creates zygote • 46 chromosomes 8
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    • The Germinal Period Spermrace to egg • 1 wins…usually. • Makes way to egg by smell • Once sperm penetrates • Chemical released • Prevents other sperm from entering • 2 penetrate • Possible miscarriage 9
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    The Germinal Period •Blastocyst • inner layer of cells • develops into embryo 10
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    The Germinal Period •Trophoblast (like trophy) • outer layer of cells • nourishes embryo 11
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    The Germinal Period •Blastocyst • Inner mass of cells • Eventually develop into the embryo • Trophoblast • Outer layer of cells • Will provide nutrition & support for embryo • Implantation • Attachment of zygote to uterine wall • 10 - 14 days after conception 12
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    The Embryonic Period •2 - 8 weeks after conception • Rate of cell differentiation intensifies • Begins as the blastocyst attaches to uterine wall • Every body part eventually develops from these 3 layers • endoderm = Internal body parts • ectoderm = Surface parts • mesoderm = Parts surrounding internal organs 14
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    2. The EmbryonicPeriod • We looked at cells of the zygote in the germinal period • Now: • Cells of the embryonic period 15
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    • The massof cells is an embryoPeriod The Embryonic • Organogenesis -- the process of organ formation during the first 2 mo’s of prenatal development • organs are especially vulnerable to environmental influences • Life-support systems for embryo develop rapidly 17
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    The Fetal Period •Fetal period begins 2 mo’s after conception & lasts for 7 mo’s • 3 mo.'s after conception • Fetus 3” long; weighs 3 ounces • At birth, average American baby: • 7 ½ lbs & 20” long 18
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    • Don’t letthem fool you….nothing works to stop the excruciating pain! • It was all invented by a man! 19
  • 20.
    The Course ofPrenatal Development The Brain • At birth – 100 billion neurons • Basic architecture assembled • 1st 2 trimesters • Neural tube: first 18–24 days • Forms the spinal cord • Neural Tube Defects • Effect so severe, won’t show you • Defect tied to nutrition 20
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    Hazards to PrenatalDevelopment Some General Principles • Teratogen • Any agent that causes a birth defect • Severity & type of defect affected by • • • Dose Genetic susceptibility Time of exposure 23
  • 24.
    Some General Principles •All drugs (prescribed, illegal) can have effects on unborn fetus • Antibiotics, analgesics, asthma medications • 1961: thalidomide tragedy 24
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    Hazards to PrenatalDevelopment Psychoactive Drugs • Psychoactive drugs • Act on nervous system & change moods • Alter states of conscious, modify perceptions • Extent of risk & harm varies 27
  • 28.
    Your Doctor WantsYou to Smoke 1951 28
  • 29.
    Nicotine (March ofDimes longitudinal study, 2011) • – Heart defects – Absence or severe underdevelopment of hands, feet, radius, tibia, ulna or fibula – Missing fused or extra fingers or toes – Clubfoot – Cleft lip or palate – Eye defects – Gastrointestinal defects • Baby more likely • 2 or more defects 29
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    Teratogens and Timingof Their Effects on Prenatal Development Zygote 1 2 Most serious damage from teratogens in first 2–8 weeks Embryonic period (wks) 3 4 5 6 7 8 Central nervous system Heart Arms Eyes Legs Ears Period of susceptibility to structural defects Period of susceptibility to functional defects Fig. 3.7 (modified) Fetal Period (wks) 9 16 32 38 Teeth Palate External genitalia 30
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    Hazards to PrenatalDevelopment Maternal Diseases • Diseases & infections cross placenta barrier • Rubella (German measles) • Diabetes • Sexually transmitted infections • Syphilis, Genital herpes • AIDS, HIV infection • New medications & vaccines available 31
  • 32.
    Hazards to PrenatalDevelopment Other Maternal Factors • Maternal diet, nutrition, & weight • Folic acid & iron • Fish: PCBs & mercury levels • Maternal age • Highest risks: adolescents, over 35 years • Down syndrome • Maternal emotional states 32
  • 33.
    Hazards to PrenatalDevelopment Parental Factors • Paternal factors • Father’s diet & low vitamin C • Drug use effects on sperm • Smoking – effects of second-hand smoke • Father’s age at conception • Birth defects: dwarfism, Marfan’s Syndrome 33
  • 34.
    Hazards to PrenatalDevelopment Environmental Hazards • Father’s exposure to lead, radiation • X-ray radiation • Pollutants & toxin wastes • Fertilizers & pesticides • Lead-based paints • Petrochemicals 34 • Why father’s exposure causes harm?
  • 35.
    Cephalocaudal • Cap • Growthstarts at the top & moves downward.
  • 36.
    Patterns of Growth •1. Cephalocaudal (Physical growth) • Sequence in which earliest growth always occurs at top, beginning with head • Physical growth • Brain & eyes grow faster than jaw • Differentiation of features
  • 37.
    Proximodistal • Penis • Sorry,all I could think of. • Proximodistal • Growth starts at center & moves outward
  • 38.
    Patterns of Growth •Proximodistal (Sensory & motor development) • Sequence in which growth starts at center of body & moves toward extremities • Sensory & motor development • Control muscles of trunk & arms before hands
  • 39.
    Age 1 to2 Years • 2 years • • • • • @ 26 - 32 lbs. Gain ¼ - ½ lb. per mo. @ 1/5 adult weight Average infant is 32 - 35“ tall @ 1/2 of eventual adult height
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    Shaken Baby Syndrome •Blindness • Majority • Neurological or mental disability • Cerebral Palsy • Mental retardation
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    Neurons • Axon • Carriessignals away from cell body • Dendrites • Carry signals toward cell body
  • 45.
    Neurons • Myelin sheath •Layer of fat cells • Provides insulation • Helps electrical signals travel faster down axon
  • 46.
    Neurons • Terminal buttons •Release neurotransmitters into synapses • Synapses • Tiny gaps between neurons' fibers • Born with 100 billion neurons
  • 47.
  • 49.
    Changes in BrainRegions • 1st yr.'s of life • Neurons change in 2 significant ways • 1. Myelination • 2. Increase in neural pathways
  • 50.
    Changes in BrainRegions • Neurons 2 significant changes • 1st years of life. • 1. Myelination • Covering of axons • Speeds up & insulates transmission • Continues into adolescence. • 2. Increase in neural pathways • Twice as many made than will ever be used.
  • 51.
    How Do InfantsGrow and Develop Physically? The Development of Dendrite Spreading At birth 1 month 3 months 15 months 24 months
  • 52.
    Changes in BrainRegions • Heredity & environment • Influence synaptic overproduction & subsequent retraction • Hereditary: • Genes • Environment • Stimulating environment vs. boring • Retraction: Use it or lose it.
  • 53.
    Changes in BrainRegions • Blooming (development or increase) in neurons • Greatest density of brain cells synapses by age 3.
  • 54.
    Changes in BrainRegions • Pruning (decrease) in neurons • Unused connections replaced by or disappear • Vary by brain region • Begins @ early adolescence & ends @ age 16.
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    Changes in BrainRegions • Prefrontal cortex • • • Higher-level thinking Self-regulation Not fully developed until @ 23 yrs.
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    Sleep Across theHuman Life Span 24 16 Total daily sleep (hours) 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 1-15 days Newborn 6 mo 12 mo 18 mo Infants 2 yrs 10 yrs 20 yrs Children Adolescents 30 yrs Adults 40 yrs 50 yrs 60 yrs 70 yrs Older adults 80 yrs 90 yrs
  • 58.
    Sleep • Individual variationin infants sleep • Typical newborn • 16 - 17 hrs day • Times & patterns vary • • • More time in REM By 3 mo’s, % of x in REM sleep decreases By 4 mo. close to adult patterns • Awake day • Sleep night
  • 59.
    Dynamic Systems Theory •Dynamic Systems Theory • • Motor development When motivated, might create a new motor behavior • Ex: Walking • Need to have maturation of nervous system • Motivation to move • Grab a bottle • Practice makes walking smoother & more effective
  • 60.
    Dynamic Systems TheoryMastering a New Skill • Example Walking: • • • Motivated by new challenge Partially accomplishes task “Fine tunes” movements • Smoother • More effective
  • 61.
    Dynamic Systems Theory Masteringa New Skill • “Tuning” • Achieved through repeated cycles • Action • Perception of consequences of action • Practice • Ex: Walking • Child gets bottle when reaches mom.
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    Gross Motor Skills •Skills that involve large-muscle activities • Sitting upright without support • 6 - 7 mo’s • Crawling • 8 ½ mo’s • Standing with support • 8 months • Walking • 12 months
  • 64.
    Gross Motor Development 2ndYear • Toddlers become more mobile • 13 – 18 months • Can pull toy attached to a string • Use hands & legs to climb up a number of steps • 18 – 24 months • • • • • Can walk quickly or run stiffly Walk backwards without losing balance Stand & kick a ball without falling Stand & throw a ball Jump in place
  • 65.
    Fine Motor Skills •Fine motor skills • Anything that requires finger dexterity • Picking up a spoon • At birth, very little • 1st 2 yrs refine reaching & grasping • When grabbing something • No longer need to watch their hand • Experience plays a role in reaching & grasping
  • 66.
    Sensation & Perception •Sensation occurs when information interacts with sensory receptors • • • • • Eyes Ears Tongue Nostrils Skin • Perception • Interpretation of what is sensed • Color = blue
  • 67.
    Ecological View • Perception •Functions to bring us in contact with environment & increase adaptation. • Designed for action • When to: • • • duck run reach
  • 68.
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    Visual Preference Method •Robert Frantz 1963 • • • Frantz’s Looking Chamber Allowed experimenter to look at infants eyes Infants look at things for different lengths of time. • Infants 2 days old • Prefer patterns
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    Perception of Patternand Depth • Infants prefer look at: • Normal human face opposed to scrambled features • Pretty face • Bulls-eye target or black & white stripes • Rather than a plain circle • Depth perception • Visual cliff • Infants develop ability to use binocular (two-eyed) cues to depth by @ 3 - 4 mo’s
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    Visual Acuity andColor Vision • By 1 yr vision • Approximates that of adult • Color-sensitive receptors (cones) function by 2 months of age
  • 74.
    Hearing, Touch, andPain • Prenatally at 7 mo. can hear sounds • Mother’s voice • Music • Immediately after birth • Cannot hear soft sounds or pitch as well as adults • Newborns respond to touch & feel pain • Infants display amazing resiliency • Several min. after circumcision (performed without anesthesia) • Can nurse & interact in a normal manner with mothers
  • 75.
    Smell and Taste •Newborns can differentiate odors • Sensitivity to taste • Might be present before birth • 2 hrs of age • Different facial expressions when tasted solutions • • • Sweet Sour Bitter • @ 4 mo. prefer salty tastes • Newborns found to be aversive
  • 76.
    Cognitive Development • Sensorimotorstage • Birth to age 2 • Infants learn to coordinate their senses and their motor behavior. • Organize world into: • • • What can I put in my mouth What is graspable What makes noise
  • 77.
    Sensorimotor Stage • Objectpermanence • Perception that objects continue to exist even when out of sight.
  • 78.
    Sensorimotor Stage • Self-recognition • • • • Towardsend of stage Rouge test Lewis & Brooks 1979 Placed in front of mirror Touched nose at 18 – 24 months.
  • 79.
    Language Development • Alllanguages, common characteristics • Rules • Describe way language works • Infinite Generativity • Can produce endless number of sentences using a limited set of words & rules
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    How Language Develops •Babies communicate by sounds & gestures • Sequence of 1st year communication • • • • 1. 2. 3. 4. Crying Cooing Babbling Gestures
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    How Language Develops •1. Crying: • Different types • Can signal distress • 2. Cooing: • 1 - 2 mo., gurgling sounds • Usually express pleasure • With interaction of caregiver
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    How Language Develops •3. Babbling • Middle of 1st yr • Strings of consonant-vowel combinations, such as “ba, ba, ba, ba” • 4. Gestures • 8 - 12 months • Showing & pointing • Showing empty cup • Means fill it
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    How Language Develops •First Words • Receptive vocabulary • 5 mo.'s may recognize their name • 13 mo.’s understand 50 words • Spoken vocabulary • 13 mo.’s • Important objects & persons • Dada • Ball • Doggie
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    How Language Develops •Spoken vocabulary spurt • 18 mo. old • 50 words • 2 yr. old • 200 words
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    How Language Develops •Overextension • Dada may mean all men • Underextension • Use a word too narrowly • Boy may mean only boys his age • Telegraphic speech
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    Noam Chomsky • Chomsky'sLAD hypothesis • LAD • Language Acquisition Device • Humans prewired to learn language at certain time • Able to detect various features & rules of language • Behaviorists opposed • Reinforced for saying Mama
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    Michael Tomasello • Behaviorist •Interaction view of language • Children learn language in specific contexts • Father & baby looking at book • father points to bird • son repeats word • Worldwide children acquire language same time.
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    Social Interaction Study,2 groups of moms & their 18-month-olds Group 1 • Told to smile & touch infants immediately after babies cooed & babbled Group 2 • Told to smile & touch infants in random manner, unconnected to infants sounds
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    Social Interaction Study •Results • 1st group • Afterwards made more complex, speech like sounds, such as "da" & "gu." • Underscores?
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