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Palmer grasp
Using palm of hand to grasp
Habituation
Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus.
Dishabituation
Recovery of a habituated response after a change of stimulation.
Kwashiorkor
Caused by severe protein deficiency. 1-3 years.
Breastfeeding pros
Lower respiratory tract infections, gastrointestinal infections, allergies, asthma, otitis media, overweight & obesity, diabetes, SIDS. For mother: breast cancer, ovarian cancer, type 2 diabetes.
Breastfeeding Cons shouldn't breastfeed if:
Active tb, HIV, taking drugs
Brain
Growth slows during early childhood. Reaches 95% of adult volume by 6 years.
Position Emission Tomography: PET
Scans pose a radiation risk to babies
Electroencephalogram: EEG
Measure of brains electrical activity
Zygote
Single cell formed through fertilization
Babies engage in physical activity or use language synaptic connections will be strengthened & replaced.
Pruning...by other pathways or disappear
Frontal lobes are____ in the newborn
Immature
Who's most at risk for SIDSwhen Ma
Mimi; her mother smokes
When Martha wants to feed her newborn; gently brushes nipple to his cheek and a ___ reflex.
Rooting
Piaget believed that children:
Actively construct their own cognitive world
___occurs when children adjust their schemes to take new info. And experiences into account.
Accomodation
Understand objects & events continue to exist even when they cannot see or touch
Object permanence
Michelle talks frequently especially when shes trying to solve difficult problems. Vygotsky says:
Likely to be socially competent
Amy, 3, walks by grandma's collection of glass animals & says those are a "no-no" Amy's using:
Vygotskys
Private speech
Vygotsky believed that children construct knowledge through:
Social interaction
The cephalocaudal pattern is the sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at: infants
Top--the head
Infants can see objects before control torso and can use hands before walk/crawl. This indicates:
Cephalocaudal
Shaken baby syndrome symptom:
Brain swelling and hemorraging
Embryo's three layers of cells:
Endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm
Large molecule not able to pass through placental walls
Hormones