Psychological development is the development of a person’s emotional, intellectual, cognitive, and social capabilities and functions that they acquire throughout their lifetime. This starts from birth and carries on until death, but how does pregnancy affect the development stage? There are many myths that when women become pregnant their cognitive capabilities begin to decrease and the mother suffers from ‘baby brain’ or ‘placenta brain’. Scientists are interested in this and some wondered what role pregnancy plays in the increase or decrease of a woman’s cognitive function.
An experiment by Christensen et al (2010) they tested cognition speed, immediate recall, working memory, and delay memory in pregnant, non-pregnant women, and during motherhood. The hypothesis of this study was to see if pregnancy affects cognitive skills in women, and this was tested through surveys and questioners (Christensen et al., 2010). With all the multiple tests there was no negative impact on the pregnant women’s intelligence (Christensen et al., 2010). Therefore, with this study there was no s...
Talge, N. M., Neal, C., & Glover, V. (2007). Antenatal maternal stress and long-term effects on child neurodevelopment: how and why?. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(3/4), 245-261.
The first trimester of pregnancy is the most sensitive trimester for a developing fetus. There are a few different ways that mothers and fetuses can be exposed during this sensitive time. They can be exposed accidentally, knowledgably, or with no knowledge of the pregnancy. An example of an accidental exposure is a radiation accident, like Chernobyl. There was no way to record the actual dosage of radiation that each child received in utero, or the amount of women who had spontaneous abortions after being exposed to the accidental radiation. It has been shown that those babies “exposed during the most sensitive period of pregnancy performed less well [on verbal IQ tests] than those who were exposed after week 16 of pregnancy” (Heiervang 213). There appear to be more significant birth defects and abnormalities in fetuses who were exposed prior to the 16 week gestational mark.
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In this semester, we are learn a lot of knowledge about ourselves, start from an infant to early adulthood. We know that, some of our behavior are development since we are infants such as intimacy with others. Other than that, we learned that most of our emotional development are more likely same as stated in Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development stages. In this report, we are using Bandura Social Learning Theory, Treisman’s Filter Model of attention, and information processing theory to explain the cognitive development in our group member and using Erik Erikson’s intimacy versus isolation theory to discuss the emotional development in relation with friendship and family.
Development psychology refers to the scientific study of the systematic psychological changes that normally occur to human beings throughout their growth period from birth to old age. It was originally concerned with children and infants, but it has since expanded to include the entire life span of mankind including adolescence and adulthood. Development psychology covers the extent to which human development occurs through gradual accumulation of knowledge, and the extent to which children born with inmate mental structures learn through experience. Several psychological theories and approaches like the behavioral, humanistic, psychoanalytic, biological, and cognitive approaches have been developed to explain the development psychology. This paper explains these approaches and theories.
There are three main theories of development that I shall discuss in this assignment, 'Cognitive', the main theorist being, 'Piaget', (1896 - 1980), The, 'Psychosocial Theory', 'Erikson', (1902 - 1994), and, The 'Psychosexual', of, 'Freud', (1856 - 1939).
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Hi my name is Suzy Rodriguez as a mother of three I feel I understand the stresses of child development that all parents face and can say that here at Day Dream our professionals are here to give you and your child nothing but the best. I am one of the developmental psychologist here at day dream. My task is to help children make the most of their lives. The services and results I offer include research-based assessments, counseling, parenting sessions, as well as educational consultation, and cognitive behavioral therapy to address executive functioning deficits associated with attention, anxiety, and mood disorders. My profession has been dedicated to helping children, and their families develop skills needed to be successful in life, on the playground, and in the classroom.
Every child’s development is distinctive, multipart, and complex. Development comes to pass in five areas. SPICE refers to the five areas of development that all children share. Social, physical, intellectual, creative, and emotional equals SPICE (Early childhood education). Erik Erikson developed a theory of development that considers the impact of external factors from infancy to later life. So, when thinking about early childhood education the one detail that comes to mind is development. Emotional-social development is one aspect of development that is greatly influenced by factors in the environment and the experiences a child has.
The first couple years newborns develop physically and mentally at an amazing rate, unlike any other time of development during their life. Many aspects of a baby’s development form the base for life-long learning. According to Berger, the concept of plasticity of human traits, which states “personality, intellect, habits, and emotions change throughout life for a combination of reasons…” affect development (Berger, 2005, p.15).
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Huizink, A. C., Robles de Medina, P. G., Mulder, E. J., Visser, G. H., & Buitelaar, J. K. (2003). Stress during pregnancy is associated with developmental outcome in infancy. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44(6), 810-818.
A fully developed foetus has its full addition of about 100 billion neurons and the first connections between neurons are already formed. After birth the process with the brain quadrupling in volume by adulthood. When the brain is relatively immature it is particularly vulnerable to the adverse environmental impacts on its developing architecture and functions, with resulting impairments with lifelong effects on their physical and mental health. Neuroscience suggests that the contribution a healthy pregnancy makes to brain development is as great as interactions a parent and child have in early childhood.
Rapid growth of the brain and nervous system continues during the early years of a child’s life, however because of birth defects or health problems some children may be at a risk of cognitive delays. Problems such as Autism, where children may have a difficult time with language skills and sensitivity to touch, behavioral problems, or chemical exposures can all affect a child’s cognitive development. For most children though with a proper diet and plenty of stimulation cognitive abilities will develop rapidly, and by about 7 years ones cognitive skills have become “functionally related to the elements of adult intelligence.”
Stress refreshes our brain, specifically it invigorate the production of the brain chemicals and making more connection between the neurons in the brain and there was animals’ studies suggest one of the people’s reaction of stress is that it assists to boost memory and learning scores. Secondly, when a body begin to feel stressful it prepares to protect itself from injury or infection that can occurs by producing extra interleukins and chemicals that helps to regularise the immune system which allows the brain to function effectively, these have been proved recently by an experiment that was done for rats in the laboratory in order to discover what is the influence of the stress, after the process it was found that stress produced a ‘’ massive mobilization’’ of several kinds of immune cells in their bloodstreams. Finally, most of women often worry about their anxiety and tension that it might affect to their unborn baby, but there was a study taken by Johns (Hopkins, 2006) who found that most of stressful women children showed actually during pregnancy greater motor and developmental skills by age 2 than those of unstressed mothers. Another reversible argument presents that unhealthy habits such as smoking can diminish the stress as it has nicotine and good for relax which is true but for the short time. (Hodgekiss, 2014) responded that women who are under pressure affects to their unborn baby’ brains and