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Zygote vs a fetus - fertilized egg cell vs 8 weeks after conception fetal alcohol syndrome - malformations of the face, heart, and ears, and nervous system damage. spectrum disorder - barely noticeable to severe. Why? alcohol decreases neuronal arousal, causes many neurons to "self-destruct" vision, hearing, & learning/memory in infancy - idk how to sum up, look at notes habituation vs dishabituation - decrease response to a repeated stimulus vs change in stimulus increases a previously habituated response Paiget's Stages of Cognitive Development - Sensorimotor (birth-2 years): Experience the world through senses Preoperational (2-7 years): Representing things with words and images, more intuition, less logic Concrete operational (7-11 years): Thinking logically about concrete events, math Formal operational (11- adulthood): Abstract reasoning Object Permanence (Piaget) - idea that objects continue to exist even when we do not see or hear them (sensorimotor 0-2) rouge test - The name for the exercise where a spot of red is placed on the infants nose and he is held up in front of a mirror. Wiping off the red spot after seeing his response is a positive. Used to figure out whether babies have a sense of self or not. (sensorimotor 0-2) Egocentrism - they see the world as centered around themselves (preoperational 2-7) Theory of mind - understanding that other people have minds too and each person knows something that other people don't ex: on the phone and they say "im playing with this" (preoperational 2-7)false belief test - whether a child understands that other people can have false beliefs about the world (preoperational 2-7) conservation - understanding that objects conserve such properties as number, length, volume, area, and mass after changes in the shape/arrangements of objects (preoperational 2-7) zone of proximal development - distance between what a child can do alone and what is possible with help Erikson's description of human development - 1. Infancy: main conflict is trust v mistrust 2. Early childhood: autonomy v shame and doubt 3. Preschool: initiative v guilt 4. School age: industry v inferiority 5. Adolescent: who am i? 6. Young adult: intimacy v isolation 7. Middle adult: generativity v stagnation 8. Old adult: ego integrity v despair