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40 Cards in this Set
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Infants are born with a variety of taste preferences A. True B. False |
False |
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Recurring infections may lead to ______ |
Poor academic performance |
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What are the 3 types of tastes infants discriminate?
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Sour, bitter, salty |
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The reflex that orients the baby to the breast or bottle______
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Rooting reflex bottle |
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Least mature in newborn's sensory capabilities____
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Vision |
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A reflex that integrates feeding ___
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Sucking reflex |
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Newborns can recognize _______ voice |
Mother |
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Fanning and curling of toes
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Banbinski reflex |
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The insensitivity to softer sounds of the infants are due to?
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Answer: fluids that have saved into the inner ear during the birth process |
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The judgement region of brain |
Prefrontal cortex |
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A reflex that helps in providing oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide |
Breathing reflex |
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What it is media strikes hardest between which age interval
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Answer: 6 months and three years of age |
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The increase in brain size is due to _____
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myelination |
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Does a 4 month old baby require any reflex to turn towards a bottle or it's mother's breast to be fed? If yes, which one? If no, how does it turn?
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Ans: No. It turns through voluntary head turning |
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What enhances an infants response? |
Sensitivity to touch |
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Newborns are not quite sensitive to the small environmental differences since they can not detect it clearly. A. True B. False |
False |
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Specialization of brain functions in left and right hemispheres____
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Brain lateralization |
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Levels of sleep and wakefulness that young infants display
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Answer: infant States |
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primitive reflexes normally disappear during the first few months of life because they are controlled by which areas of the brain
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Answer: lower subcortical areas |
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Which primary areas control the activities such as climbing up or down the stairs
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Answer: primary motor areas |
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A change in patterning of the brain waves that indicate that an individual detects a stimulus
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Answer: evoked potential |
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Which parts of brain allowed to concentrate on a subject for lengthy periods and are not fully myelinated at puberty
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Answer: reticular formation and the frontal cortex |
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Which area of brain helps in understanding of spoken languages
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Answer: Wernicke's area |
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Infants can detect mother by_____ |
Smell |
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this is a psychological indicator of stress which is significantly higher just after the circumcision then just before the surgery of infants
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Answer: plasma cortisol |
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Babinski reflex is cute but how does it help with the survival?
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Ans: It's a primitive reflex, so isn't meant for survival |
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common bacterial infection of the middle ear that produces mild to moderate hearing loss
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Answer: otitis media |
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We're nerve fibres, in the brain, present We thicken in adolescence The two brain hemispheres, we connect,Who are we, can you detect? |
Corpus callosum |
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Which area of the brain is responsible for speech production
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Answer: Broca's area |
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Which cerebral hemisphere do left handed people rely upon to perform basic motor functions
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Answer: right cerebral hemisphere |
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Palmar grasping reflex is a survival reflex. True/False? |
False |
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How many types of reflexes are present in babies as soon as they are born? Name them
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Ans; 2- Survival and primitive |
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Which primary areas control the activity of vision hearing smelling and tasting
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Answer: primary sensory areas |
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I'm a reflex, crucial for life I help exhale Carbon dioxide Without me, you can't survive Let me see if you can guess me right?
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Breathing reflex |
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I help babies identify calls from far and nearI'm not your eye, nor your earWhich sense am I, my dear? |
Hearing |
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You show your finger to a new born and her grabs it tight! What reflex is this?
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Ans: Palmar grasping reflex |
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Which cerebral hemisphere contains centres for processing visual spatial information
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Answer: right cerebral hemisphere |
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For how long does the swimming reflex stay? |
4 to 6 months |
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Your 1 month old nephew is crying. You take him near his mom and he stops. How could he detect her? |
Through her smell |
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We cannot see vehicles coming from far But can hear horns of bikes and carsCan you guess who we are? |
Newborns / infants |
