PSYC 2076 Chapter : Chapter 4
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Chapter 4 birth and the newborn infant: the three stages of labor. Contractions open and close to force the head of the fetus against the cervix. Only a few minutes: cultural ideas about labor and delivery: vary depending on culture. (example: africans giving birth alone by a tree and quick recovery) How can those expectations affect how a mother experiences labor: they color the way that people in a given society view the experience of childbirth. The neonate: neonate: a newborn child, the apgar scale: a standard measurement system that looks for a variety of indications of good health in newborns. Can produce cognitive defects such as language delays and even mental retardation: physical appearance of neonate, very few of you have actually seen a newborn baby. Those babies you see in movies and tv shows are a couple of weeks old.
