I want to first start by saying that I am really enjoying this class. Being a Chem: Pre-Med major I have had a lot of the biological development stuff, but being able to see it from a psychology stand point is really amazing. It has allowed me to see a baby not as just a fertilized egg, but an actual human. These first few chapters have also allowed me to understand how I have become who I am today. I want to begin by touching on how absolutely fascinated I was learning the specifics about the development of a baby, first from a zygote then to a fetus then to an embryo. As I mentioned in our discussion, I had no idea that fertilization actually occurs in the fallopian tubes. I thought that that only happened by accident and the result
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I also never realized what the sperm go through once they enter the vagina. This is more related to my human anatomy class I am taking, as we just talked about the embryonic period, but it is crazy that as soon as the sperm enter the vagina they have to go through capacitation. This is a process where the glycoprotein layer is removed so the receptors of the acrosomal cap, which finds the egg, are exposed. Some sperm do not even make it past this point, let alone to the egg itself. It just made me really consider how hard it actually is in a way to get pregnant, since so much goes into it. Last, another fact I have not been able to get out of my head and have been …show more content…
I knew this was a thing that all of us did as humans, but now seeing it as an actual concept with a name is fascinating. So fascinating to the point that I had to Instagram a photo of it from the book. (Side note, I geek out and go crazy for terms and names for concepts about the weird things we do as humans.) All too often we see people who are even slightly different as deficit as described in the book. I have no idea why we are programmed this way and it really makes it unfortunate that we are. I wish people saw differences as a positive thing, because if we were all the same we would never advance or get any where in life. Just because I am really good at chemistry does not mean that someone who is not is dumb or deficit. They are good at 100 different other things, that I would be seen as deficit in and I love that about us all. If we were all programmed to do chemistry, our world would only have gotten so far. Each person’s differences allows for different perspectives, solutions, and ideas to flow, without which we would be royally screwed. I thought it was funny that age was a big example talked about, because at one time we have all been that age and were probably doing and acting the same way, but none since one is out of that stage they feel the need to judge or
I also never realized what the sperm go through once they enter the vagina. This is more related to my human anatomy class I am taking, as we just talked about the embryonic period, but it is crazy that as soon as the sperm enter the vagina they have to go through capacitation. This is a process where the glycoprotein layer is removed so the receptors of the acrosomal cap, which finds the egg, are exposed. Some sperm do not even make it past this point, let alone to the egg itself. It just made me really consider how hard it actually is in a way to get pregnant, since so much goes into it. Last, another fact I have not been able to get out of my head and have been …show more content…
I knew this was a thing that all of us did as humans, but now seeing it as an actual concept with a name is fascinating. So fascinating to the point that I had to Instagram a photo of it from the book. (Side note, I geek out and go crazy for terms and names for concepts about the weird things we do as humans.) All too often we see people who are even slightly different as deficit as described in the book. I have no idea why we are programmed this way and it really makes it unfortunate that we are. I wish people saw differences as a positive thing, because if we were all the same we would never advance or get any where in life. Just because I am really good at chemistry does not mean that someone who is not is dumb or deficit. They are good at 100 different other things, that I would be seen as deficit in and I love that about us all. If we were all programmed to do chemistry, our world would only have gotten so far. Each person’s differences allows for different perspectives, solutions, and ideas to flow, without which we would be royally screwed. I thought it was funny that age was a big example talked about, because at one time we have all been that age and were probably doing and acting the same way, but none since one is out of that stage they feel the need to judge or