PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Prenatal Development, Preterm Birth
20 Mar 2019
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Your life provides an interesting illustration of the two themes that permeate the study. The prenatal period, between conception and birth. Embryonic stage: the embryonic stage is the second stage of prenatal development, lasting from two weeks until the end of the second month, a period of great vulnerability because virtually all the basic physiological structures are being formed. Environmental factors and prenatal development: teratogens are any external agents, such as drugs or viruses, that can harm and embryo or fetus. Fetal origins of disease: events during prenatal development can program the fetal brain in ways that influence one"s vulnerability to various types of illness decades later. Exploring the world: motor development: motor development refers to the progression of muscular coordination required for physical activity. Basic principles: the cephalocaudal trend is the head-to-foot direction of motor development, the proximodistal trend is the centre-outward direction of motor development, maturation is development that reflects the gradual unfolding of one"s genetic blueprint.
