Groth From Infant To Adult

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transforms into an embryo. An embryo is the developing human organism during the period from week three through week eight, when the major systems, organs, and structures of the body develop. At the final stage of pregnancy the embryo becomes a fetus which rapidly further develops the structures, organs, and systems of the human being.
Fetal behavior is the behavior of the fetus within the womb. Human fetuses are surprisingly very responsive to sounds as early as the twenty-fifth week of gestation. Studies related to fetal behavior have proven infants to recall sounds they were exposed to in the womb such as a certain repeated story being read, the mother�s heartbeat, or music. A highly active fetus predicts a highly active child also known as hyperactive. Very low fetal activity can indicate a mentally challenged child. The fetuses gender may also influence fetal activity in a way that males are often more active than females in the womb.
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as a decrease in response or attention to a stimulus as an infant becomes accustomed to it.
The temperament of a human being is defined as the person�s behavioral style or characteristic way of responding to the environment. A example of temperament would be a shy child or an outgoing child. These are both responses to the environment around a child. Alexander T. Thomas, Stella C. Chess, and Herbert B. Birch studied a group of two to three month old infants and followed them into adolescence and adulthood in order to determine their temperaments. Their results drew three different types of temperaments: difficult, easy, and slow-to-warm-up. An easy child was one a consistently good ...

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