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Head-sparing |
biological that spares the brain if malnutrition occurs |
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percentile |
a number that represents a rank compared to similar people ( toddlers, adults, white black) |
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REM sleeping |
Rapid eye movement - flickering of the eyes under closed lids... dreaming |
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co-sleeping |
when a parent sleeps with their child |
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neurons |
nerve cells in the CNS, especially the brain ( CNR= central nervous system) |
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cortex |
the outer layer of the brain
thinking, feeling, and sensing happens here |
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prefrontal cortex |
front of the brain
anticipation, planning, and impulse control happens here |
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axon |
a fiber that hangss from a neuron sends messages to dendrites through other neurons |
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dendrite |
extends from a neuron and recieves messages sent from axons |
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synapse |
where an axon and axons dendrites and neurons connect |
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transient exuberance |
an increase in dendrites that develop in the first two years of life |
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pruning |
when unused dendrites die |
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experience-expectant brain functions |
brain functions that one must have to function normally |
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experience-dependent brain functions |
brain functions one may or may not gain not really needed for development |
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shaken baby syndrome |
when one shakes a baby back and forth rupturing of blood vessels in the brain and breaks neural connections could result in death
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self-righting |
to return to sitting or standing after falling down |
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sensation |
response of a sensory system when it detects a stimulus Ears, nose, eyes, skin, tongue, |
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perception |
mental processing of sensory info. when the brain interprets a sensation |
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bionocular vision |
when one can focus with two eyes in a coordinated manner |
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motor skills |
learned abilities to move some part of the body |
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gross motor skills |
large body movements: walking and jumping |
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fine motor skills |
Small body movements: picking up a coin, painting |
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immunization |
using antibodies to protect one against disease |
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protien-calorie malnutrition |
a condition where one does not consume enough food of any kind |
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wasting
stunting |
W= when malnutrition is the result of a severely underweight child
S= when children fail to grow to their desired height and weight due to chronic malnutrition |
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marasmus |
disease: severe protein-calorie malnutrition during early infancy growth stops body tissue die off and infant eventually dies |
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kwashiorkor |
chronic malrutrition during childhood where child more vulnerable to diseases , measles diarrhea, and influenze |
