PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Leg Before Wicket, Aspirin, Nicotine

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 220
• Professor: Stacey Scott

Document Summary

Cerebral cortex- the wrinkled surface of the brain that regulates many important human behaviors. Neural tube stretches out and eventually closes to form human shape. Development of cns, eyes, heart, ears, teeth, palate, legs and arms, and genitals. Increase in size and body systems begin to function. Age of viability: occurs between 23-25 weeks and the fetus has a chance to survive. Prenatal development: period of development and changes that transform a fertilized egg into a newborn human. Heartrate and movement are in sync at 36 weeks better regulation of behaviors alertness, attention, less irritable) at 2 weeks post-birth. Animal studies show maternal stress linked to smaller offspring who are prone to physical or behavior problems. Many diseases pass through the placenta directly and attack the fetus. Others attack later (aids can infect prenatally, during birth, or through breast- feeding) Pote(cid:374)tially da(cid:374)gerous drugs are (cid:374)ot li(cid:373)ited to (cid:272)o(cid:272)ai(cid:374)e or other (cid:862)hard drugs(cid:863), (cid:271)ut also caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, aspirin.