PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Habituation, Breast Milk, Primitive Reflexes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Victor Emerson

Document Summary

Change of personality traits through life or stability through the ages. Objective knowledge --> sperm + egg = zygote. Usually signaling to the male to attract male for meeting. Eg silkworm moth sensing bombykol from 5 miles away. Also time it for ideal birth seasons (eg winter vs summer newborns) Menstrual cycles being to release and egg down the fallopian tube. If encounters a sperm, will implants in the uterine. If no implantation or no fertilization --> egg and lining are shed. Eg experiments with exercising into a t shirt and smelling used tampons. Hear and respond to mother"s voice --> gets familiar. Fetus can see light and dark but cannot detect patterns. Mothers often feel like fetuses will respond to certain foods. Sexual activity during pregnancy is not a risk. The newborn is born under a lot of stress. Often the shoulder or collar bone is broken.