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3 - Physical Flashcards

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1
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How does Nicotine impact fetuses?

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Constricts blood vessels -> decreases oxygen flow and nutrients to fetus

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What does nicotine use during pregnancy increase the risk of?

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  • Miscarriage
  • Premature birth
  • Developmental impacts
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What are the 5 categories of the APGAR scale

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Appearance (body colour)
Pulse
Grimace (reflex irritability)
Activity (muscle tone)
Respiration

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What does 7-10 on the APGAR scale mean?

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Baby is big chilling

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What does 4-6 on the APGAR scale mean?

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Moderately abnormal, potential developmental risk

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What does 0-3 on the APGAR scale mean?

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Baby may not survive, potential decreased blood flow/oxygen to the brain

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Limitations of APGAR

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  • Only one point in time
  • Sedation/anesthesia may impact baby’s reaction
  • Tone/colour/reflex is subjective
  • Partially depends on gestational age
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Grasping reflex

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Hand grasp when touched

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Babinski reflex

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Moving up and spreading out of toes in response to touch along foot

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Stepping reflex

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Legs move automatically when feet feel solid surface

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Rooting reflex

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Touch to corner of mouth -> turning of head towards source

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Moro startle reflex

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Feeling of falling -> arms outstretched, palms up, thumb flexed

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Newborn imitation

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Mimicking of facial expressions, likely to establish emotional bonds with caregivers

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How often to newborns cry per day?

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2-3 hours

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“Basic” cry & what it signifies

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Starts softly, gradually intensifies
Signifies hunger/fatigue/discomfort

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“Mad” cry

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Intense crying, needs not met quickly

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“Pain” cry

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Sudden long shriek followed by pause, gasp, then more crying

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What age should you begin letting baby cry and learn to self-soothe?

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3 months

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19
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How fast does damage occur in shaken baby syndrome?

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5 seconds

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What is shaken baby syndrome?

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Head trauma sustained by rough shaking, brain hits skull -> bleeding/bruising/swelling -> lack of O2 -> brain damage

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What is considered a preterm baby

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under 37 weeks

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What is a low birth weight in a newborn?

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Under 2500g

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23
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What can cause LBW

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  • Teen mothers
  • Medical issues
  • Drug use
  • Mental illnesses
  • Poor access to prenatal care
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Kangaroo care

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Infant in only diaper is held skin-to-skin against mother’s breast under her clothing

25
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Benefits of kangaroo care

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Babies have regular HR and better sleep, mothers have better lactation

26
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Impacts of massage therapy

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Reduced stress behaviour in babies (crying, grimacing, startling)

27
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Preterm/LBW have an impact on

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Memory (decreased hippocampal volume)

28
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What are some immediate symptoms of shaken baby syndrome?

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Bruising, seizure, decreased consciousness, respiratory difficulty

29
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What are some lasting symptoms of shaken baby syndrome?

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Cognitive issues, visual impairment, intellectual deficits

30
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Cephalocaudal pattern

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Fastest growth occurs at top and then moves down

31
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Differences in height/weight as children grow depend on ___ (3)

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Genetics, environmental factors, nutrition

32
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What causes individual differences in puberty onset/progression?

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Nutrition, body fat, exercise

33
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What causes timing of puberty?

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Genetics and environmental factors

34
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What 3 brain structures control puberty?

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Hypothalamus, pituitary gland, gonands

35
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Do hormones = behaviour?

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NO, predisposition and societal factors >

36
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Why do girls have more body issues during puberty?

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Causes more fat storage

37
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What are the evocative genetic effects caused by early onset of puberty (girls)

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Smoking, drinking, depression, EDs, delinquent behaviour

38
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Neuronal activation patterns/synapse plasticity is strongest in

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early development

39
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How does the brain accommodate to a lesion/loss in one part of the brain at a young age?

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Rewires brain

40
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What happens if there is a lesion/loss in the stronger side of the brain (for the task)

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Weaker side also experiences loss/reduction

41
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True or false, all areas of the brain develop synaptic density at the same rate

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False

42
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Why is the thickening of corpus callousum during adolescence beneficial?

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Better communication between hemispheres

43
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Why do adolescents act based on emotion?

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Amygdala matures before prefrontal cortex

44
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Do high IQ or low IQ brains go through the most change from childhood to adolescence

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High IQ

45
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Why does cortical thickness change during prenatal development?

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Formation of neurons/dendrites/synapses

46
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Why does cortical thickness change during childhood/adolescence?

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Proliferation of myelination (thickening)

47
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Why does cortical thickness change during adolescence?

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Usage-dependent pruning of synapses (thinning)

48
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When is the most REM sleep needed?

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Infancy

49
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What stage of development of you need most sleep?

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Earlier in development 0-2 yrs

50
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Why does the brain use REM sleep

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Brain is re-activating same neural patterns used in daily experiences to organize/store info in memory

51
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REM sleep impact on learning

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Important when learning something new

52
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Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

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Infant stops breathing suddenly at night while sleeping

53
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Does co-sleeping have a correlation to SIDS?

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Yes

54
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How many hours of sleep do adolescents need?

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8-10 hours/night

55
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Why is it significant that the prefrontal cortex is susceptible to sleep loss?

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Still developing in teens

56
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Why do older teens sleep & wake up later?

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Change in melatonin production

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