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issues that influence a growing child and family
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safe daycare, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and child maltreatment.
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unexpected death of an infant that remains unexplained after complete postmortem exam, investigations, and review of case history.
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SIDS
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What is the cause of SIDS?
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unknown. thought to be R/T a brain-stem abnormality in the regulation of cardiorespiratory control.
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what is child maltreatment?
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broad category used to encompass intentional abuse against a child.
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3 main forms of child maltreatment.
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child neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse.
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what is child neglect?
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depriving a child of basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, and medical care.
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what two factors are triggers in physical abuse?
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crying and toilet training.
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the use, persuasion, or coercion of any child to engage in sexually explicit conduct or any simulation of
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sexual abuse
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a measure of how a child compares to others the same age.
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percentile
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repetitive cycles of behaviors that help infants manage their new world.
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rhythms
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how many sleep-wake cycles and what are they?
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two sleep states: deep and light sleep.
four awake cycles: drowsy, quiet, active alert, and crying. |
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period when REM occurs
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active sleep.
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independent and separate development of simple skills.
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principle of hierarchical integration
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different body systems grow at different rates
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principle of the independence of systems
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fontanel closes to palpation by ______ month.
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4
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at what age does a child begin to walk on their own?
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12 months
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at what age can a child reach for, grab, and hold onto an object?
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by 6months
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at what age does binocular vision occur?
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14 weeks
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T or F: infants can smell breast milk and differentiate between their mother's and others breast milk?
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TRUE
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biological protection of the brain when malnutrition temporarily affects body growth.
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head-sparing
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first two stages of sensorimotor intelligence involve what?
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response to its own body
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The ability to identify a stimulus that was previously experienced through one sense by using another sense.
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cross-modal transference
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at what age are the first words spoken?
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10-14 months
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one-word utterances that stand for an entire phrase.
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holophrases
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two words are combined into a single thought.
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two-word combinations
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speech patterns in which words not critical to the message are left out.
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telegraphic speech
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T or F: as vocabulary increases, the use of gestures decreases.
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FALSE
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patterns of arousal and emotionality that are consistent and enduring characteristics of an individual.
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temperament
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the three categories that describe the overall temperamnet of most children.
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easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm.
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response to an abrupt action or noise. arms fly outward and the fingers fan out to form a "C"
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moro reflex
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