PSYCH 111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Preterm Birth, Phallic Stage, Anal Stage
Document Summary
Universal aspects of lifespan development from conception through death. Divides and implants itself in the wall of the uterus. Allows oxygen and nutrients to pass into fetus from mother"s bloodstream. Myelination of brain takes place in the fetal stage. Motor skills emerge from the head to feet. Motor skills emerge in a sequence of center moving outward. Harmful toxins that affect development, resulting in defect, damage, or anomaly. How much of something you take impact how much it affects you (too much alcohol could lead to alcohol poisoning, too much x-ray exposure could lead to cancer) Drugs/chemicals provide an increased understanding of the role of prenatal exposure to drugs on the developing child. Thalidomide helped identify how certain drugs could alter development. Prolonged stress linked with prematurity and low birth weight. Increases fetal activity, leads to a low birth weight, perceptual and attention problems, increases sids (sudden infant death syndrome) Growth retardation, head and facial abnormalities, microcephaly, skeletal/brain/heart damage.
