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| What is a Cepalocaudal pattern? |
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| sequence in which the earliest growth always goes from the top down, beginning with the head |
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| What is a Proximodistal pattern? |
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| sequence in which growth starts at the center of the body and moves towards the extremeties |
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| What is Shaken Baby Syndrome? |
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| swelling and hemorrhaging of an infant's brain due to being shaken/dropped |
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| How big is a baby's brain? |
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| an infants brain at birth weighs about 25% of its adult weight |
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| How do early experiences affect the brain in an infant? |
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Definition
| they shape how neural connections are made |
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| What is SIDS and what are the risk factors? |
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Definition
SIDS: (sudden infant death syndrome) condition when infants stop breathing usually during the night, and die without an apparent cause
- sleep position and surface
- low birth weight/premature birth
- fan in the room
- etc.
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| What are the advantages to breast feeding? |
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Definition
- appropriate weight gain
- decresed risk of childhood obesity
- reduced incidence of breast cancer in mother
- increased weight loss in mother
- higher IQ scores
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| What is the difference between Gross and Fine motor skills? |
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Gross: skills that involve large muscles
ex. moving arm in circles, walking
Fine: involve small muscle and finely tuned movements
ex. using a spoon, buttoning a shirt |
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built in reactions to stimuli
- blinking
- grasping
- sucking
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| What are some 1st year milestones? |
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Definition
- lifting head
- rolling over
- sitting up
- standing
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| What are some 2nd year milestones? |
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Definition
- climb stairs on knees
- walk stiffly
- balance in squatting position
- walk backward without losing balance
- throw a ball
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| What is the difference between Sensation and Perception? |
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Definition
Sensation: when information interacts with sensory receptors
Perception: how that information is interpretated |
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| Which sense develops last after birth? |
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| Piaget's Sensorimotor stage |
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Definition
| lasts from birth to about age 2. infants construct and understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with motor actions |
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| involves adjusting to new environmental demands |
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| children use their existing schemes to deal with new info or experiences |
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| children adjust their schemes to take new info and experiences into account |
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| actions or mental that organize knowledge |
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| grouping isolated behaviors and thought into a higher-order, more smoothly functioning system |
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| understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard or touched |
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| explains how children shift from one stage of thought to the next |
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| What is the difference between an Implicit and Explicint memory? |
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Definition
Implicit: skills and routine procedure that are automatically performed
Explicit: memory of facts and experiences that individuals consciously know and can state |
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| What order does language develop? |
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Definition
- crying
- cooing
- babbling
- gestures
- first words
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| When should a baby say its first word? |
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