Birth to 15 Months Flashcards
Master lecture 1
What does APGAR stand for?
Appearance Pulse Grimace (relex irritability) Activity (muscle tone) Respiration
What is the cutoff for prematurity?
Very premature?
Status of Infant Mortality in US?
<32 weeks
Very high for developed country
What are key Maternal Issues post- partum?
Post-partum Depression–normal up to 2 weeks post delivery, past this time may devo to full blown w/ symptoms of extreme depression that affect psycosoial devo of child– apx 5-10%
What % develop into full blown post-partum depression
1%
What impacts prenatal devo?
SES, Nutrition of mother, Exposure to teratogens, illnesses
Key Newborn characteristic for: Feeding Survival Motor Devo Early personal-social devo
crying, sucking, rooting
moro, grasping, head control
tracking
What are the 9 Temperment Characteristics from birth (Thomas/Chess)
Activity level, Persistence, Distractibility, Initial rxn, Adaptability, Mood, Intensity, Sensitivity, Regularity
Key features of Parenting
Goodness-of-fit (parenting style and temperment), Playing, Eating, Sleeping (sleep training)
Attachment
-via John Bowlby in early 20th
-creating relationship based on CRITICAL NEEDS to increase survival
-“Bonding” not necessariy survival BUT impacts life
-“Mothers” available/responsive to needs to create sense of security
Proximity seeking behaviors
Contact maintaining behaviors
What are contact maintaining behavoirs?
-Safe haven
-Safe base
-Seperation Distress
~ part of Bowlby’s Attachment Theory
Key features of Harlow’s monkeys
- prefered cloth surrogate
- Devo strange behaviors later~ rocking/misdirected aggresion/atypical sexual behavior
- Became “motherless mothers’
Harlow’s caregivers represent
warmth, food and safety + love, acceptance and affection
Characteristics of Infant Attachment
Vocalizations Interactions Social Smiles Devo's complexity Groundwork for future relationships
“Strange Situation”
How child responds to being left alone and reunified with caregiver
Series of 8 episodes, starting with caregiver, adding a stranger, developing a secure base, ect
Securely Attached Child Can:
separate from parent
seek comfort from parent
return of parent met positively
prefers parent to stranger
Securely Attached Children– to Adults
Adults can: devo trusting and lasting relationships
trends toward good self-esteem
comfortable sharing feelings
seeks out social support
Who developed theory of intellegence?
Jean Piaget
Theory of Intellegence
Adaption to enviroment; able to balance needs v demands
Cognition moves us past action– to symbolic thought
Organizes in schemes
Displays both adaption assimilation and accomidation
Picture of Cat and Dog: labeled as Dog and Dog is exampled of what?
Assimilation
Picture of Cat and Dog: labeled as Cat and Dog is exampled of what?
Accomidation
What type of cognitive development occurs from birth to 2 yrs?
Sensorimotor period
- Exercising reflexes
- Primary Circular Rxns
- Secondary Circular Rxns
- Coordination of secondary schemes
- Teriary Circular Rxns
- Intention of new means through mental combination
What and When do we devo exercising reflexes?
(0-1 month) = reflex activity, sensorimotor
What and when do we devo Primary Circular Rxns?
(1-4 months)= activities w/ own body repeated, coordination
What and when do we devo Secondary Circular Rxns?
(4-8 months) = actions to make interests persist, involves events or objects
What/When do we devo Coordination of secondary Schemes?
(8-12 months) = combining schemes to obtain goal
What/When do we devo Tertiary Circular Rxns?
(12-18 months) = Trial and error, goal seeking for novel results