Chapter Five: Prenatal Development and Birth
After completing Chapter Five students will be able to:
- Discuss the evolutionary perspective on development
- Describe how genes impact human development
- Describe important reproductive challenges and choices
- Characterize how heredity and environment interact to produce individual changes in development
- Describe the three periods of prenatal development
- Describe potential hazards during prenatal development
- Discuss the stages, transitions and decisions involved in birth
- Characterize the development of low-birth-weight infants
- Describe three measures of neonatal health and responsiveness
- Explain the physical and psychological aspects of the postpartum period
