PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Low Birth Weight, Leg Before Wicket, Infant Mortality
8 Mar 2017
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On average: new born babies sleep for 16 hours a day- twice as much of a young adult would sleep. State of arousal: state: the i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)t"s le(cid:448)el of arousal a(cid:374)d e(cid:374)gage(cid:373)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374) the e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Heavily influences the newborn"s exploration of the world: two hours a day: the baby would spend in the state of conducive learning. Drowsiness- just waking up or on the way to go to sleep. Alert awake- distinguished by the activity: most conducive to learning at this state. Newborn states- sleep: newborns sleep twice as much as young adults. Learning: you need rem sleep in order to learn better. Learning is tightly associated in rem sleep: they are learning rapidly and in order for them to learn properly and consolidate their learning, they need the help of rem sleep. Newborn states- crying: adult response to crying. Have an extremely visceral response to cries. They respond differently to a newborn cry and a 6-month old cry.
