PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Primitive Reflexes, Umbilical Cord
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The world is teaching an infant to not only master functions of her mind and body and the features of her environment, but also starting to understand the psyches of others (called having a theory of mind) Work with fellow humans to imagine, plan, create, build, and do all the other things of which her species is capable. Changes in the body and the ability to sense and move. Growth in the skills needed to perceive, understand, and get along with others. Sperm and egg cell unite to form the fertilized egg, or zygote. Within hours of this union of sperm and egg, nuclei of the two cells merge, creating a novel combination of 23 pairs of chromosomes, half from the mother and half from the father. Begins a process of dividing and redividing, producing a blastocyst, a mass of identical cells.
