DEVELOPMENTAL

THEORIES
Module 4
  Prenatal development time between conception and
birth
 

 Postnatal development time from birth till death

BIOPHYSICAL
DEVELOPMENT
 

PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT
 Conception -fertilization
 Mitosis
 A mass of cells called the BLASTOCYSTS

GERMINAL (ZYGOTE) STAGE

EMBRYO: DURING THE GERMINAL STAGE OF PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT, THE
CELLS NECESSARY FOR THE PLACENTA, UMBILICAL CORD, AND AMNIOTIC
FLUID WILL DIFFERENTIATE TO FORM THE EMBRYO.
 Uterus -implantation
 3rd week – skin and the nervous system
 4th week – senses, circulatory and the
respiratory systems
 5th week – muscle and skeletal systems

EMBRYONIC STAGE
(3-8 WEEKS)
 

FETAL STAGE
(9 WEEKS-BIRTH)
FETAL STAGE
FREUD’S PSYCHOSEXUAL
DEVELOPMENT
ERIKSON’S PSYCHOSOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
PIAGET’S COGNITIVE
DEVELOPMENT
KOHLBERG’S MORAL
DEVELOPMENT