Unit 6

• Prenatal Development goes zygote, embryo, fetus
• Teratogens are anything that can be passe to an embryo or fetus that causes harm
• maturation is the result of aging- not influence by environmental factors
• the three infant reflexes are rooting, grasping, and startle/ moro
• Assimilate is to use the same schema
• Accommodate is to change the category
• Sensorimotor stage


  lack object permanence until 8-10 mth

  separation anxiety at 9-12 mth

  egocentric
• Preoperational stage


  2-6

  theory of mind at 4

  only 1 category sorting

  animism

  role playing

  representational thought
• concrete operational stage


  6-12

  law of conservation at 7

  sort into multiple categories
• Formal stage


  12 and up

  absrtact thinking