PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Neural Development, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Lanugo
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We change at the very least three times; infancy, childhood, and adulthood. We have had up until this point to make decisions to get us here. It is a combination of probabilities that put us in a place physically and mentally: nature vs nurture. Stability vs plasticity: there are some aspects of your behaviour that are simpler to those years ago. There are also some aspects that are completely different. Prenatal: viable, where an egg can be fertile for about 24 hours, hormones cause a females uterus to prepare for a fertilized ovum. In the 28 days; proliferative stage lasts 9 days, ovulation happens 1 day, a secretory stage lasts 14 days, and a menstrual cycle lasts 5 days: sperm last 6 days. In conception, it normally happens on the day ovulation or a couple of days before it. A placenta is the formation that is going to feed us and take away our waste products: lasts two weeks.
