PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Umbilical Cord, Healthy Diet, Prenatal Care
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Conception sperm fertilizes an egg and a zygote (fertilized egg) is formed. Teratogens- mother ingests, into bloodstream, into placenta into fetus. Prenatal care medical care during pregnancy that monitors health of woman and embryo/fetus. Some stay, others go away with time. Prefer the small of mom after birth. Swaddle like to be curled up like the womb. Motor skills: being able to voluntarily move your muscles. We do(cid:374)"t start out (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g a(cid:271)le to think like adults. Jean piaget studied the errors in cognition made by children in order to understand how they think differently than adults: schema mental container we build to hold our experiences. They take form of images and models: an infant mind works hard to make sense of our experiences in the world. Child knows what a dog is so when the child encounters a cat she puts it into her existing schema of a dog and calls a dog.
