Prenatal to Toddler

1. Development
Prenatal and Infancy

3. What happens in the womb
does NOT stay in the womb

4. Germinal Period (0-2 weeks)
Resistant to external factors,
but
Susceptible to spontaneous miscarriage

5. Embryonic Period (3-8 weeks)
Critical

6. Embryonic Period (3-8 weeks)
Central Nervous System
Brain
Eyes
Ears
Mouth/Palate

7. Other Bad Things
Teratogens
Illness

8. Fetal
Alcohol
Syndrome

9. Fetal Period (12-38 Weeks)
Physical Structure
Brain starts to detect and respond

10. Good Things
Speech
Music
Healthy Food

12. Social Attachment
Your first relationship: With yourself
Your Next Relationship:
The first person you touch and see and smell
MOMMY

14. Harlow’s Monkey

15. Raised by Dogs

16. Critical Brain Development
Neural Connections develop and strengthen
Use It or Lose It - refined connections based on
experience
Stimulation is CRITICAL

19. Effect of Neglect
http://www.today.com/video/today/46731704#46731704

20. Piaget’s Stages
Sensorimotor
Pre-operational
Concrete Operations
Formal Operations

22. Sensorimotor:
Birth - 2 yr
Motor exploration
Eat those hands
and feet
First Mental
representations
(schemas)
Update
Schemas:
learning new
facts about
objects

24. Preoperational
2-7 yr
Lack of conservation
Centration: Only one
detail at a time.
Egocentrism: If the
box is no my head,
no one sees me.

25. Concrete Operations
7-12 yr
Law of Conservation
Actions are reversible
(especially when they
have been naughty ;-)
Nothing abstract

26. Formal
Operations
12 yr and up
Morals
Right vs wrong
Abstract
reasoning
Problem solving

27. Language Development
From sounds to bigger sounds
to words to phrases to sentences
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From phonemes to morphemes,
to words to phrases to sentences

28. Phoneme
Hello
H E LL O

29. Morpheme
Hell O

30. Word
Hello

31. Phrase (Telegraphic speech)
Hello how you

32. Sentence
Hello how are you today