106 Mod F, G Flashcards
T or F: ACTIVITY is actively participating or internally driven.
True.
Explain Alternative Child Care
Care outside of the primary caregiver. Consists of center based care, family child care and home care
Define Antigen
induces formation of antibodies
Define Autoimmunity
body begins to fight itself
Lupus and Juvenile arthritis are examples of:
autoimmunity
Stroking the bottom of the infants foot (which causes the infant to spread his/her toes apart) is called:
Babinski reflex
The Babinski reflex usually disappears in children at what age?
1 year of age
What could be the problem if the infant’s Babinski reflex is abnormal?
Cerebral Palsy
What is another word for adaptation to loss?
Bereavement
This is a way for children who lack social skills to express their anger by inflicting verbal or physical abuse on another child:
Bullying
What should the nurse do regarding bullying?
educate parents and teachers, provide support and help bully; help make and maintain friends, provide alternative methods for coping.
Recurrent episodes of unexplained crying and the inability to be consoled are called:
Colic
How do you treat Colic?
Feed slowly, burp often, DO NOT OVERFEED, avoid gassy food for mom (if breastfeeding), swaddle baby, take it for a ride in the car, use swing, massage baby’s back, let them cry
This concept states that change is orderly and built upon earlier experience and the course of development looks like a smooth growth curve:
Continuity
A limited time span when a child is biologically prepared to acquire certain behaviors; but needs support of a stimulating environment is called:
Critical period
Predictable physiological, psychological and cognitive developments over the lifespan due to growth and learning is called:
Development
This phrase describes an age based on functional behaviors and the ability to adapt to the environment:
Developmental Age
T or F: Diapers and Politicians should be changed often.
True, and for the same reasons.
This concept states development is a series of discrete steps or stages that elevate the child to a more advanced level of functioning with increased age; that development basically looks like a flight of stairs and that behavior later in life has replaced behavior from earlier in life:
Discontinuity
This word describes Freud’s component of personality that deals with reality or realistic ways of satisfying instinctual drives:
Ego
The girl’s version of an Oedipus Complex is called:
Electra Complex
The ability to speak is also called:
Expressive Language
What could be the reason behind an abnormal gag reflex?
Neurological damage
The way we think about ourselves as male or female is called:
Gender identity
When the palms of hands or feet of an infant are stimulated near the base of the digits causing flexion of hands or toes, this is called:
Grasping Reflex
How long does the Grasping Reflex last in infants?
About 8 months
What could be wrong if an infant has an abnormal Grasping Reflex?
Lesions on the Frontal Lobe
Define Grief & Loss.
A complex range of feelings, cognition and behaviors
Developmental maturation in posture, head balance, sitting, standing and walking is called:
Gross Motor Development
T or F: Growth charts usually have a consistent pattern
True
T or F: There are separate Growth Charts for boys and girls.
True
The physiological increase in size as measured by weight or height is called:
Growth
A bee sting or an bad reaction to drugs can be called:
Hypersensitivity Reaction.
Frued’s component of personality that deals with “ME, ME, ME, ME!” (also called The Pleasure Principle) is called:
Id
T or F: They should hurry up and make Austin Powers 4.
True. All I want are frickin’ sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads!
How are Immune Breakdowns classified?
As either a Under-reaction or an Over-reaction
This thing responds and recognizes self from non-self
Immune System
Cancers and Immunodeficiencies are examples of:
Immune Underreaction
Name 5 inactive vaccines:
Dtap, Hep A, Hep B, IPV, Influenza
Describe infant dental care
swab tongue clean, use only fluoride suppliments; and keep the cavity clean
Describe infant nutrition
Breast milk (CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!) or Formula, solid foods, weaning, use of pacifier
This keeps antigens from spreading, disposes of cellular debris and is “damage repair”; it is where WBC’s go to battle infections:
Inflammatory Response
Children who are at home alone when they get home from school are called:
Latchkey Kids. Not to be confused with Flintstone Kids. 10 million strong…..and growing.
A breakdown in immune system where the normal bone marrow forms an overgrowth of abnormal immature lymphocytes or blasts is called:
Leukemia
What are the two main types of Leukemia?
Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia and Acute Myleogenous Leukemia.
When faced with a sudden change in position or jarring, the baby responds with arms extended, head moves back, fingers spread apart with thumb and forefinger forming a “c”, followed by hands being brought back to center with hands clinched is called:
Moro Reflex. Not to be confused with the Philippines-based Moro Islamic Liberation Front (whose acronym is MILF). Seriously, they exist. Google it after the test.
The process one goes through on the way to adaptation is called:
Mourning
This describes the genetically inherited traits such as eye color or body type
Nature
The boys version of the Electra Complex:
Oedipal Complex.
This is shaped by child rearing or external forces:
Passivity
What is Phagocytosis?
Where WBC’s destroy antigens
Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome (SCIDS) is an example of:
Primary Immunodeficiency
Proximodistal is…
Starting midline and going outward
This is a state where secondary sex characteristics begin to appear, sex organs mature, reproduction becomes possible and a person gets large growth spurts:
Puberty
The ability to understand words is called:
Receptive Language
Stroking or touching the cheek of an infant causing its head to turn toward stimuli is called:
Rooting Reflex
When does the Rooting Reflex normally disappear?
4 months
What could be wrong if the Rooting Reflex is abnormal?
Frontal Lobe lesion
What are some examples of Secondary Immunodeficiency?
Anything acquired such as AIDS, Human T lympotrophic Viral Leukemia
The time span that is optimal for certain capacities to emerge when the individual is especially receptive to environmental influences is called:
Sensitive Period
The initial dose of an antigen is called:
Sensitizing dose
This occurs when a child is separated from a care giver…the child doesn’t understand that the person will return.
Separation Anxiety
This sets off a hypersensitivity reaction and can possibly lead to tissue damage:
Shocking Dose
What are some examples of Solid Foods?
rice cereal, then vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs. These should be introduced one at a time. Juice is not indicated until 1 year.
Explain SIDS
the sudden unexplained death of an infant between 1 month and 1 year of age after all known causes have been ruled out.
Freud’s component of personality that deals with conscience; the superego that balances the Id and ego and strives for perfection:
Superego
The way the child acts with its surrounding environment is called:
Temperment
When the head of an infant is turned to one side when supine, the infant extends arm and leg on the side the head is facing while the other extremities are flexed is called:
Tonic Neck Reflex
What could cause an abnormal response to the Tonic Neck Reflex?
Neurological Damage
When does the Moro Reflex disappear?
3-4 months
This drug is an antipyretic and non-opioid analgesic
Tylenol