PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Life History Theory, Inner Cell Mass, Congenital Heart Defect

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

Document Summary

Devleopment- age related changes that ocucra s individual progesses from conception to death; occur rapidly in childhood, and continue persist in adulthood. Changes occur adolescene and go through infancy and young adult hood, refer evolutionary biology, life history theory, predictable sequence of events within species. 20-30s, and shift quite a bit from mating into parenting; species typically life history. Fetal stage- fetal stage time birth, bones and muscle begin to form and to function, kicking, moving, organs begin to function embryonic stage form and not operating yet, fetal stage, heart beat and ultrasound, Infleunce developing health of organism- maternal nutrition, quanitites/quality of nutrient that mom is consuming, maternal mal nutrition dramtically increase birth complicatsi, neurological defects, schizophrenia, low birth weight increase risk for heart disease and diabetes. Drug use- effects vary dramatically; fetal alcohol syndrome- birth- micro cephaly, heart defects, childhood-hyperactivity, retarded metnaland motor development, adults-depression, suicide,c riminal behavior, binge drinking,