PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Language Acquisition Device, Noam Chomsky, Inductive Reasoning
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Parental practices influence how motor skills develop in children. Environment determines how a person"s genes are expressed and how they"re expressed. The sperm from the male unites with the egg from the female to create the zygote. 2 weeks to 2 months the developing human is known as embryo. Hearts, lungs, liver, sex organs, kidneys begin to form. After 2 months its called a fetus. Hormones that circulate in the womb influence the developing if the fetus. Teratogens- environmental agents that harm the embryo or fetus. Newborns are able to process sensory stimuli. Hearing is better than their vision, range acuity is 20-30 centimetres. Grasping reflex is when a baby helds tightly to your finger. Rooting reflex is the turning and sucking of a nipple of a similar object. Helps to learn more complicated behavior patterns such as walking or feeding oneself. Myeleination begins on the spinal cord during first trimester of pregnancy and on the brains neurons.
