Prenatal Development
When does life begin at the time of conception?
What is 72 hours?
depressants are drugs slow/reduce neural activity and body functions
Alcohol, Barbiturates, and opiates
What stage does REM occur? (rapid eye movement)
Stage 5 (dreams occur, body is paralyzed and thalamus is active)
What did Harry Harlow discover (Hint; Monkey)
Monkeys preferred the soft mother (clothe mother) over the wire mother (the one with milk)
Lifelong physical and mental abnormalities caused by the mother drinking heavily during pregnancy such as low birth weight, birth defects, lower intelligence, behavioral problems and hyperactivity.
What is Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)?
Stimulants are drugs that excites neural activity and speeds up bodily functions. (Pupils dilate, heart and breathing increases, blood sugar levels rise and cause a drop in appetite)
Caffeine, Cocaine, Ecstasy, nicotine, amphetamines and methamphetamine
Humans sleep around 1/3 of their lives, that saying adults sleep around 8 hrs, teenagers 8-11 hrs, and adults over 70' for 5 hrs.
How much sleep do newborns get?
Newborns sleep 16 hr a day
Newborns can be addicted to drugs that the mother consumes during pregnancy, this also occurs with an agent viruses and chemicals that can harm the embryo/fetus during parental development
What is teratogens?
What are hallucinogens and their effects?
Hallucinogens are psychedelic. They distort perceptions and sensory images such as LSD or Ecstasy (MDMA) or milder forms are marijuana
What are two sleep disorders?
Insomnia - Inability to obtain adequate sleep
Sleep apnea - not breathing during sleep
Narcolepsy - over whelming sleepiness
Nightmares - occur during REM
Night terrors- 5 stage, (Sweating, trashing, rapid heart rate, waking up with no memory)
What is the order from conception to birth?
Zygote -> Embryo -> Fetus
This drug smoked or eaten has harmful side effects such as agitation, seizures, hallucinations and suicidal or aggressive thoughts/actions.
Marijuana
Two facts about dreams
25% of our night is dreaming (2 hrs)
we forget 95% of our dreams
recurring dreams - dreams that happen over and over
lucid dreaming - When you know your dreaming and can control them
Healthy newborns have many reflexes such as grasping reflex, touching a baby palm will grab your finger. The sucking reflex by touching the babies lip and a baby's reflex that to open it's mouth and start searching for a nipple is what type of reflex?
What is rooting reflex?
What should prevention programs have?
- Strong family bond(s)
- Parental monitoring
- Successful school performance
What are the stages of sleep?
Stage 1 - Lightest stage, easy to wake up, hypnogogic hallucinations (body falling feeling, hear someone call your name)
Stage 2 - From high altitude to low frequency ( onset of true sleep)
Stage 3 - Deeper sleep
Stage 4 - Deep sleep can't be woken up easy, talking out loud and bed wetting, sleep walking.
Stage 5 - REM sleep (rapid eye movement) you are paralyzed, dreams occur, fingers twitch and