Title: Effect of alcohol consumption in prenatal life, childhood, and adolescence on child development Author: Francesca Foltran, Dario Gregori, Laura Franchin, Elvira Verduci, and Marcello Giovann...
Title: Researching cause and effect
Author: Lance Jones
Date published: Jan 15th, 2012
Why is this relevant: This power point is relevant because it gives you many recources that would help someone understand what cause and effect is. For example, it provides you with background information on it, states the 3 main characteristics of it, on top of providing you with many examples that really help your understanding of the topic. The slide is very user-friendly and easy to understand. It even provides synonyms for words in case you don't understand.
How this influenced my thinking: It has influenced my thinking in a couple ways. One, i never knew there were so many aspects to cause and effect. There are two variables that must be related, two sides to the correlation, and the cause must come before the effect and not vise versa. Two, it really helped me understand why a person would use the cause and effect method, and also why it might not be the best method for some types of studies.
Credibility of source: Although id like to think this comes from a very credible source, there is not really anything on the site that indicates it is....
Title: Nature vs. Nurture Revisited
Author: Kevin Davies
Date Published: 04.17.01
Why Relevant and Summary: We are studying this concept this week and it is the focus of our short critical thinking essay. It is a great article about the findings of the Human Genome Project that analyzes and lists the reason why we should take very seriously the role of environment into human development.
How This Influenced My Thinking: It has given me a different perspective on how I see disease, illness and good health.
Credibility of Source: It is published on NOVA, and the author is a doctor of genetics.
Title: 'Identical Strangers' Explore Nature vs. Nurture
Author: JOE RICHMAN OF RADIO DIARIES
Date Published: October 25, 200712:50 PM
Why Relevant and Summary: Great interview and information of adopted twins in a natural experiment.
How This Influenced My Thinking: Listening to real people tell their story on being twins and a part of a study of how nature vs. nurture has impacted them individually has contributed greatly to my understanding.
Title: Genes vs. Environment
Author: University of Edinburgh
Date Published: May 16, 2012
Why Relevant and Summary: This article provides information on over 800 sets of experiments that were done to prove how genes played a more important role in development than the environment.
How This Influenced My Thinking: This made me want to conduct my own research or do my own study on twins who were separated at birth to see how identical their characteristics were after five or ten years of being apart. That would help me see for myself if genetics really do have a greater inpact than environment does on development.
Credibility of Source: This source is credible because the information was derived from universities, journals, and other research organizations and they have references to all the information they used.
Title:Babies Listen and Learn While in the Womb
Author:Denise Mann
Date Published:Jan. 3, 2013
Why Relevant and Summary:It discusses learning in the womb. Babies begin to absorb language within the womb in the last 10 weeks of pregnancy. In a study, infants only hours old sucked on a pascifier more often when they heard vowels sounds in their native language than when hearing vowel sound in a foreign language. The mother's body amplifies her voice so the baby cannot hear dad's voice.
How This Influenced My Thinking:I never knew that a newborn could differentiate between a mother's voice. When I have kids, I will definitely be talking to them the last weeks of pregnancy.
Credibility of Source:Veyr credible since it came from WebMD
Title: Exclusive Breastfeeding for 6 Months Best for Babies Everywhere
Author: No Author (World Health Organization)
Date Published: 15 January 2001
Why Relevant and Summary: This statement from the WHO recommends that babies be exclusively breastfed for 6 months (no supplementation) based on the evidence from a recent 2009 study. The WHO also recommends that infants/toddlers continue to be breastfed for two years or more. The statement also covers some of the benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and baby.
How This Influenced My Thinking: Breastfeeding long term is biologically normal, but not socially normal. The more we see the benefits and see mothers continuing to breastfeed, the more socially normal it will become.
Credibility of Source: The World Health Organization is credible and bases it's statements off of research findings.
Orkney custom, a pregnancy must be kept a secret to prevent the fairies from finding out about the baby and causing harm to the mother or child
n our own culture, we find doctors and hospitals continuing to perform procedures that studies have demonstrated as unnecessary or harmful because of a pervasive belief that it is necessary or important for the health of the mother. We have seen the ending of the pubic shave and the enema, but episiotomies are still performed as "necessary" to prevent damage to the perineum without any understanding that an episiotomy itself damages the perineum.
Title:Childbirth in Other Cultures
Author:Jennifer Vanderlaan & Birthing Naturally
Date Published: 2000-2011
Why Relevant and Summary: Its relevant because it talks about what other cultures believe when it comes to childbirth
How This Influenced My Thinking: It didn't influence my thinking
Credibility of Source: It seems credible
Title: Fetal response to induced maternal stress.
Author: DiPietro JA, Costigan KA, Gurewitsch ED.
Date Published: Nov. 2003
Why Relevant and Summary: This study and other publications by DiPietro show an amazing knowledge of fetal development and the stress reaction from the fetus when mom is stressed. DiPietro also has done work with mother and the fetus bonding during pregnancy.
How This Influenced My Thinking: I have 3 kids so nothing he said actually surprised me.
Credibility of Source: Very Credible
Title: Breastfeeding
Author: Doug Cope
Date Published: 1/19/2013
Why Relevant and Summary: Great one minute talk about the benefits of breastfeeding, and alternative options. In a study from the Center for Disease and Control, 1,500 women were surveyed their plans for exclusive breastfeeding after birth of their incoming child, 85% of the women stated they planned to exclusively breastfeed, while only 32% of those moms actually were able to after birth, "..and that just shows that we're not supporting mothers to be able to feed their babies in ways they'd like". American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization recommend that women breastfeed exclusively for the first six months of babies lives due to the health benefits. Infants that are breastfed have reduced risk of ear infections, gastrointestinal infections, diabetes and sudden infant death syndrome. Mothers who breastfeed have reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancer. In order to improve the breastfeeding rate, it is important that in the first days of an infant's life s/he can stay with their mother for the first 24 hours of life in the hospital to receive exclusively breast milk.
How This Influenced My Thinking: I learned about the benefits of breastfeeding, and the large impact it has on babies' development.
Credibility of Source: Very credible.