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Cephalocaudal |
Head develops more rapidly than lower part of the body |
Head to tail |
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Proximodistal trend |
Head,chest, and truck grow ahead of extremities |
Near to far |
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What is the best estimate of physical maturity ? |
Skeletal age |
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At birth, what is the closest to adult size than any other physical structure |
The brain |
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Tiny gaps between neurons |
Synapses |
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What controls movement and coordination |
Frontal lobe |
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What controls the body's sensation |
Parietal lobe |
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What is lateralization ? |
Specialization of the two hemispheres |
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Left hemisphere ? |
Better at sequential, analytic processing. Good approach for communicative information |
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Right hemisphere ? |
Specialized for holistic, integrative processing. Good for spatial abilities and regulating negative emotion |
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What is brain plasticity? |
If a part of he cerebral cortex is damaged other parts can take over task it would have handled. |
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How can age affect adoption babies later in life |
Children adopted before age 6 months displayed impressive cognitive catch up and those adopted after 6 months showed serious intellectual deficits |
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What can be an effect of a rise in breast feeding |
Cosleeping being increased in western nations |
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Reasons to breast feed |
Provides correct fat-protein balance Ensures nutritional completeness Promotes healthy physical growth Protects against many diseases Protects against faulty jaw developments and tooth decay Ensures digestivilitt Smooths transition to solid food |
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What can be an effect of malnourishment during infancy? |
-Later lower IQ Scores -growth and weight problems -learning and attention problems -more intense stress response -passivity and irritability |
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What is a reinforcer |
Increases occurrence of a response -preventing desirable stimulus -removing unpleasant stimulus |
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What is punishment |
Decreases occurrence of a response -presenting unpleasant stimulus -removing desirable stimulus |
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How do newborns imitate |
-Newborns have a primitive ability to learn by copying another persons behavior -the capacity to imitate expands over the first two years |
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What is gross-motor development |
Crawling, standing, walking |
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What is fine-motor development? |
Reaching, grasping |
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Perceptual sensitivity becomes attuned to information most often encountered by: |
Faces, musical rhythms, and language |
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Early face perception |
3 months- infants make fine distinctions among features of different faces 5 months- infants perceive emotional expressions as meaningful wholes, a capacity that expands by 7 months. |
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What is intermodal stimulation |
Simultaneous input from more than one modality or sensory system |
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Intermodal perception |
Capacity to perceive streams of multi-sensory input as integrated wholes It develops rapidly in the first year |
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What do infants perceive |
Babies detect patterns such as complex designs and individual faces |
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Electroencephalogram (EEG) |
Caps on head to measure electromagnetic on brain |
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PET scan |
Radioactive due to look at glucose metabolism |
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