PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Egg Cell, Ovulation, Psy
11 Mar 2019
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Psy 111 chapter 9 part 1: developmental psychology. Lifespan development: the study of continuity and change across the life span. Prenatal stages of development: germinal stage, embryonic stage, fetal stage. This process is called implantation: germinal stage covers the 14 days between fertilization implantation. It also appears like a distinctly human being. Prenatal environment: the environment of the womb affects an unborn baby in many ways, foods, substances a mother takes affects development, teratogen: any environmental agent that enters the mom"s body and causes damage during the prenatal period. Illegal: tobacco, nicotine: constricts blood vessels, which lessens blood flow to the uterus (the fetus can"t gain weight normally) and leads to low birth weight, radiation, pollution (mercury, lead, smog, alcohol. Infectious disease (influenza, hiv, rubella: alcohol consumption during infancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome (fas) which causes physical defects as well as cognitive impairments (in attention, reasoning, planning, the body uses large quantities of oxygen to metabolize alcohol.
