Evolutionary Psychology: The Importance Of Prenatal Learning

Between 6-9 months the baby’s brain will start to develop faster and faster at any other time during their life. Their memory will become quite strong they will repeat things over and over again. They will also learn what they are hearing which could be songs or rhymes or whilst they are being spoken to by parents siblings or strangers.

Gen (1) revealed the creation of the world and everything in it such as light, waters, earth, sky, animal, plants, which also created the work week. Each day of the week was a gift given to us along with a day to rest and restore. Then humans were created in the image of God

A baby will often learn most in their own home, when they visit shops either by walking, car or public transport, although a baby will learn most by watching their parents/ carers, siblings and/ or other close family and friends. A baby will also learn from everything an adult or child says, or does, and from any activities or experiences which is on offer to them.

Developmental Psychology has widened my perspective and knowledge of the nature of development from humans’ infancy to adolescence and emerging adulthood. Although I have learned about biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes and periods of development, I am especially interested in socioemotional development in infancy because it is the foundation for a child’s future development. That is to say, if children have a healthy socioemotional development from infancy, they will have a healthy life later on. By understanding the developmental process in infancy, I will be fully prepared when I have children or when my family’s members do.

Q.1 In your own words, detail the -for and against argument with regards to innate and learned behaviour. Feel free to include your own opinion, but be sure to justify it. Try to include an equal amount of information for the both sides. Use at least 500 words for your answer.

Annie Murphy Paul started her Ted talk by asking everyone the question “When does learning begin?” While most people would answer preschool or kindergarten, where the child is under the guidance of a teacher, others may say anywhere from 0-3 years of age. This is primarily when children learn how to walk and talk. However, she explains that the fields of both psychology and biology have proved that fetuses start learning while they’re in the womb. Annie explains within her book Origins that the health and wellness of a child are effected during the 9 months of gestation.

Michelle, R.A., (2013) The effects of maternal nutrition on fetal psychological development. International Journal of Childbirth Education.28.3:p90.

This means that even in the womb, they are able to hear the mother. The child is able to learn from hearing and listening. It is important to talk to the child so that she can expand her vocabulary and knowledge. Tasting and mouthing play an important role in development. When a child is young, everything goes to her mouth.

A common, threatening event in women who are bearing children and are undernourished is the result of premature birth, which creates yet another problem among the impoverished. According to Tanner and Finn-Stevenson, premature babies are highly vulnerable to health complications because they are unable to perform biological functions such as breathing and sucking independently (2002). Also they found that premature infants process information at a slower rate and have a lower intelligence level as well as having more learning problems in school than full-term infants (Tanner and Finn-Stevenson, 2002). In one study done by Chavez, Martinez, and Yaschine in 1975 of Mexican infants in poverty, out of two groups of newborns, one group was supplemented with powdered milk, vitamins, and minerals, while the diet of the other group consisted of prolonged breastfeeding (Tanner and Finn-Stevenson, 2002). In that particular community breastfeeding was resulting in malnutrition of the infants receiving the breast milk due to the poor diets that their mothers were ingesting. The results of this test showed that after eighteen months the mothers of the supplemented infants initiated more complex interactions with their offspring than the

There are few things in this world that are pristine and new, clean-slated and fresh. A newborn child is just one of these things; unaware of feelings, human interactions, the joys or fears of life, and the world as a whole. However, what contact this child has with the world will shape and develop the mind, personality, emotions, and stability of the sense of self from the very beginning. It is because of these interactions that people are able to develop a healthy persona and it can determine how they intergrade with the world around them and all of whom they come across. Unfortunately not all children are lucky enough to be born into a healthy environment that will nurture the child to its full potential. Some children have bad

Have you ever wondered exactly how infants perceive the world around them? If infants are exposed to certain foods in their prenatal development and are exposed to the food through their mother during breastfeeding after birth, will they remember that particular food later on in their life and prefer its taste to other foods? Is their sense of smell acute after birth or is it acquired over time? How do infants use the sense of touch to form relationships and learn about the fascinating world around them? Are they born with the ability to see the myriad of colors contained in the rainbow or is this ability developed after birth? Do infants tend to rely more heavily on their vision or their hearing to retrieve information from the

Parental investment, in evolutionary psychology, is any parental expendture that benefits one offspring at a cost to parent's ability to invest in other components of fitness. Components if fittness include the wellbeing of existing offspring, parent's future sexual reproduction, and inclusive fitness through aid to kin. Parental investment may be performed by both the male and female (biparental care), the female alone (exlusive maternal care) or the male alone (exclusive paternal care). Introduced in 1930 by biologist Ronald Fisher, parental care is found in a broad range of taxonomic groups, including both ectothermic (amphibians,reptiles,fish) and endothermic (mammals ad birds) species. Care can be provided at any stage of the offspring's

When a child is born, it is like a blank piece of paper ready to absorb anything and everything that they possibly can. From birth they take in the light, the sounds, and the new environment they were just born into. This is when the great journey called life begins. This is the moment, moms start to worry about that piece of them that is now this new being. Mothers will continue to worry for the rest of their child’s life. They only want what is best for their child and will follow all instructions to ensure their children have a good future. Worrying happens for everyone not only mothers. Anyone who studies and works in child development also worry about all the new babies who enter this world. They search, investigate, and find all the answers to help mothers make the right choices and better prepare their baby for the future.

Evolutionary Psychology (EP) is an approach to psychology that adds on knowledge and principles of evolutionary biology has to offer by researching the structure of the mind. The aim of EP is on the evolving matter of information-processing mechanisms that are compiled by the human mind, supplying the important connections between evolutionary biology and complexity, irreducible social, as well as, the cultural phenomena studied by historians, economists, anthropologists and sociologists. This is an area of which the way we think about psychology that can be applied to various topics.

Most people believe that learning begins at birth. However, developmental researchers in a relatively new field called “fetal origins” are finding that some of the most important learning begins in the womb.