PSYC 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-3: Saccharin, Pitch Contour, Sedative

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 251
• Professor: Elizabeth Kelley

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--while in womb, fetuses can detect a range of stimuli coming from the outside world, they can learn from these experiences and be affected by them after birth. Gametes/germ cells (sperm and egg) contain genetic material found in other cells. Women gets all eggs during her own prenatal deve; men produce new sperm continuously. and functions during development. *now: epigenetics. body to elicit + attention from others, consult diviners, herbal med to hasten dry-out of umbilical cord. West africa tribe: newborn =reincarnation of ancestor (life begins well before birth). 4th b. c. e: aristotle (cid:498) does prenatal life start with the individual preformed, composed of a full set of tiny parts, or do the parts of the body develop in succession?(cid:499). He believed in epigenesist: emergence of new structures. Ancestor"s spirit (cid:523)wru(cid:524) goes back and forth to the spirit village (cid:523)wrugbe(cid:524) until umbilical stump dropped off, then bb is considered a person (life begins after birth).