PSCH 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia, Bipolar I Disorder
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5/8/2017 10:01:00 pm: stages of pre-natal development, germinal stage: conception to 2 weeks. Zygote: embryonic stage: 2 weeks to 2 month. Heart, nervous system, stomach, esophagus, and ovaries or testes form: fetal stage: 2 months to 9 months. By the end of 3rd month, fetus begins to move around. By end of 7th month, organ systems are functional but still immature. In 8th and 9th month, fetus is sensitive to outside sounds and responsive to light and touch: pre-natal risks, placenta, teratogens, crack babies, fetal alcohol syndrome. Cognitive disability, facial malformations: critical period: time when certain growth occurs, newborn, vision. Have 20/300 eyesight: 7 months: depth perception. Look at objects with large elements, movement, clear contours, and lots of contrast: faces, hearing. Prefer high pitch voices: prefer woman"s or children"s voices, baby talk or mothese, smell. Unlearned, involuntary actions: grasping, rooting, sucking, stepping, babinski (plantar reflex, swimming, cognitive development, development and memory, infantile amnesia.