PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prenatal Development, Fetus, Zygote
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Humanist argues differences in personality are due to what their needs are. Germinal stage: 0-2 weeks, zygote travels through fallopian. Embryonic stage: 2-8 weeks, zygote implanted in uterine wall, cell differentiation. Fetal stage: 9-birth/40 weeks, movement, accumulates experiences. Fetus movements: 7 weeks = hiccups, 12 weeks = birth" movements. Describe how a typical newborn spends her day. Explain how preferential looking can be used to measure infants" perception. Describe how motor development affects visual development. Characterize the first two stages of piaget"s theory of cognitive develop. Know how to test a child for theory of mind understanding (2 ways) Fetuses explain tastes/smells, sounds, touch, and sight. What can they see? not a lot. There"s not much light in the womb. Very little exogenous (experience/stimuli that comes from outside ourselves) experience. Endogenous = experiences/stimuli we generate by ourselves see light and they fire irregularly, so they experience endogenous sight.
