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ASU Chapter 4: Physical Development in Infancy Flashcards

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PATTERNS OF GROWTH: A developmental sequence wherein the earliest growth always occurs at the top, gradually working its way down to the bottom.

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Cephalocaudal Pattern

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PATTERNS OF GROWTH: Sequence in which growth starts at the center of the body and moves toward the extremities.

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Proximodistal Pattern

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TRUE or FALSE: Newborns grow about 2 inches per month during the first year

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FALSE ; Newborns grow only about 1 inch per month

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4
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The brain contains approximately ____ neurons at birth.

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100 Billion

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A syndrome that induces brain swelling and hemorrhaging in babies.

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Shaken Baby Syndrome

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Machine that measures the brain’s electrical activity.

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Electroencephalogram

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Portion of the brain farthest from the spinal cord, includes the cerebral cortex and structures beneath it.

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Forebrain

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Specialization of function in one hemisphere of the cerebral cortex or the other.

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Lateralization

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A nerve cell that handles information processing

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Neurons

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A layer of fat cells that helps electrical signals travel faster down the axon

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Myelin Sheath

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The tiny gaps between a neuron’s fibers.

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Neurotransmitters

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The process of encasing axons with fat cells

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Myelination

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A view suggesting that biological processes and environmental conditions influence the brain’s development.

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Neuroconstructivist View

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WHY DO WE SLEEP?
- Because sleep is necessary for survival

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Evolutionary Perspective

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WHY DO WE SLEEP?
- Because it cleans out waste in the neural tissue and rebuilds and replenishes the brain and body

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Restorative Function

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WHY DO WE SLEEP?
- Because it increases synaptic connections between neurons

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Critical for Brain Plasticity

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TRUE or FALSE: A typical newborn sleeps approximately 18 hours a day

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TRUE

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TRUE or FALSE: Approximately nearly all hours of an infant’s sleep is under REM sleep

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FALSE ; only half of it is spent in REM sleep

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SHARED SLEEPING: Sharing a bed is common practice in cultures such as those from ___ or ___.

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Guatemala or China

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SHARED SLEEPING: Infants usually sleep in a crib, either in a separate room or their parents’ room in cultures such as those from ____ or ____.

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The US or Great Britain

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A syndrome that occurs when an infant stops breathing, usually at night - resulting in death without an apparent cause.

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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

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TRUE or FALSE: It’s theorized that sleep may be linked to cognitive development because of sleep’s role in brain maturation and memory consolidation.

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TRUE

23
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How many calories should infants approximately consume per day for each pound they weigh?

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50 Calories

24
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Between breast feeding or bottle feeding - which is better for the baby?

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Breast Feeding

25
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Provide at least three beneficial outcomes of breast feeding for a child

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  • Lower gastrointestinal infections
  • Lower respiratory tract infections
  • Protects against wheezing in babies
  • Less likely to develop middle ear infections
  • Less likely to become overweight or obese
  • Less likely to develop Type 1 Diabetes
  • Less likely to experience SIDS
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Provide at least one beneficial outcome of breast feeding for the childbearer

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  • Lower incidence of breast and ovarian cancer
  • Small reduction in Type 2 Diabetes
27
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Provide a reason as to why a childbearer should not breastfeed.

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  • When infected with HIV or other infectious diseases
  • When inflicted with active tuberculosis
  • When under drug influence
28
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Wasting away of body tissues in the infant’s first year, caused by severe protein-calorie deficiency

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Marasmus

29
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Caused by severe protein deficiency, wherein a child’s abdomen and feet become swollen with water.

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Kwashiorkor

30
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A theory suggesting that infants assemble motor skills for perceiving and acting

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Dynamic Systems Theory

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Built-in reactions to stimuli that govern a newborn’s movements ; are automatic and beyond a newborn’s control.

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Reflexes

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Type of skills that induce large muscle activities such as walking as well as inducing the development of posture.

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Gross Motor Skills

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Dynamic process linked with sensory information on the skin, joints and muscles which tell us where we are in space.

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Posture

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Type of skills that involve more finely tuned movements, such as finger dexterity.

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Fine Motor Skills

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Type of grasp wherein the child grips something with their whole hand.

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Palmer Grasp

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Type of grasp wherein the child grasps small objects using their thumb and forefinger.

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Pincer Grip

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This occurs when information interacts with our sensory receptors, such as our eyes, ears, tongue, nostrils or skin.

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Sensation

38
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A body’s interpretation of what it just sensed.

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Perception

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Perception functions to bring organisms in contact with the environment and to increase adaptation according to …

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J.J Gibson’s Ecological View

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Opportunities for interaction offered by objects that fit within our capabilities ot perform functional activities

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Affordances

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A method that determines whether infants can distinguish one stimulus from another by measuring the length of time they attend to different stimuli.

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Visual Preference Method

42
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Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repreated presentations of it.

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Habituation

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Recovery of a habituated response after a change in stimulation

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Dishabituation

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TRUE or FALSE: Color vision manifests within an infant once they’re 9-12 weeks old

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FALSE ; it manifests as early as 4-8 weeks

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Sensory stimulation is changing but perception of the physical world remains constant

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Perceptual Constancy

46
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Type of constancy wherein there is a recognition that an object remains the same even though the retinal image of the object changes as you move toward or away from it.

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Size Constancy

47
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Type of constancy wherein there is a recognition that an object’s shape remains the same even though its orientation changes

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Shape Constancy

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TRUE or FALSE: Babies hear sounds during the last 2 months of pregnancy

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TRUE

49
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Form of perception that involves integrating information from two or more sensory modalities

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Intermodal Perception

50
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Nature proponents ; our ability to perceive the world in a competent, organized way is inborn or innate

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Nativists

51
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Emphasis on learning and experience

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Empiricists

52
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TRUE or FALSE: Perception and action are NOT isolated, but are coupled.

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TRUE

53
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TRUE or FALSE: We perceive in order to move and move in order to perceive.

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TRUE

54
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The 4 Major Lobes of the Brain are…?

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  • Frontal
  • Parietal
  • Occipital
  • Temporal

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