Psychology 2410A/B Lecture 2: Pregnancy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2410A/B
• Professor: Sandra Hessels

Document Summary

Views of pregnancy: shaped by cultural beliefs. In canada, the ratio at birth is 105 males to 100 females: males are more vulnerable than females across the lifespan. Beginning at birth, the canadian male-to-female mortality ratio exceeds 1 until age 85 years. Between age 15-29, males are more than twice as likely as females to. Increasing levels of behaviour, sensory experience and learning. Initial jerkiness gradually becomes more integrated: spontaneous movement from 5 weeks after conception, by 12 weeks, most movements present at birth have appeared, prenatal continuity in movement extends into postnatal period. Fetal learning: newborn infants have been shown to recognize rhymes and stories presented before birth, newborns also prefer smells, tastes and sound patterns that are familiar because of prenatal exposure. The newborn infant: sleep: newborn sleep twice as much as young adults, the pattern of two different sleep states changes dramatically, rem sleep, non-rem sleep.