PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Morning Sickness, Myelin, Thalamus
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Development: age related changes that occur as individual progresses from conception to death. Life history theory: any sexually reproduce species go through a series of changes. Reproductive effort: start to reproduce mating effort and parenting effort. If zygote is implanted in fallopian tube, must be aborted. Further development and differentiation of cells (some becomes heart, etc) Risks of miscarriage and birth defects is high due to high occurrences of cell duplicates (one cell is wrong, all descendant cells will be wrong) Mother"s physiology is sensitive towards major defects. (first pregnancy"s defect and miscarriage) Organs begin to function; sex organs develop. (ex. Maternal malnutrition increases risks of birth complications, neurological defects, schizophrenia. Low birth weight increases risk for heart disease and diabetes. Tobacco: reduces flow of oxygen/nutrients to foetus miscarriage, stillbirth, prematurity, sids. Genital herpes and aids are frequently fatal for newborn. During labour, baby is exposed to lots of mother"s blood, may contract hiv.
