PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prenatal Development, Gestational Age, Fetus

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Kyle

Document Summary

Characterize human perception in utero: there is a link between vision and movement. Define and list some examples of teratogens and how they affect prenatal development. Describe how a typical neonate (newborn) spends her day. Explain how preferential looking can be used to measure infants" perception. Characterize the first two stages of piaget"s theory of cognitive development. Know how to test a child for theory of mind understanding in two ways. Fetal experience and sensation: the womb is not a vacuum, the womb isn"t a dark, silent place. Fetuses experience stimuli in utero: tastes, smells, sounds, tactile sensation, sights** Fetal audition: much more robust than fetal vision (the fetus can hear more than it can see) Fetal heartbeat changes in reaction to external voices being played. Fetal olfaction: 3 day old neonates turn their heads longer toward familiar versus unfamiliar amniotic fluid, they learn this in utero and this is true for both bottle fed and breast fed nb"s.