Ch 5 Infancy - Physical Flashcards
What is physical growth?
US barbs lengths double and weights increase around 200% during the first 2 years of life
What is Neuronal Growth?
Effects of experience and acquisition of language
What are fine motor skills?
involves coordination of small muscles such as fingers and eyes
What are Gross Motor Skills?
Involves coordination of large muscles; important for locomotion
What did Campos, Bertenthal, and Kermoian discovered that ____ accounts for the emergence of wariness of heights.
crawling
What is Probabilistic epigenesis?
experiences that, in turn, create the conditions for further
developmental changes
What did the Baillargon: Car Study result in?
6.5 months old baby look longer at the impossible event, know that the block is back there
What is locomotion?
the ability to move around on your own
At what age does this reflexive pushing disappear in babies?
2 months of age
Around what month do babies begin to crawl?
8-9 month
What are secondary circular reactions and during what substage of Piaget?
third stage of sensorimotor; babies repeat actions to produce interesting changes in their environment; substage 3
At what age did infants not search for the hidden toy?
8 months
What are tertiary circular reactions?
fifth stage of sensorimotor phase; the deliberate variation of action sequences to solve problems and explore the world
What is deferred imitation and during what stage of Piaget?
the imitation of an object in the past; substage 6
What is symbolic play and during what stage of Piaget?
play in which one object stands for, or represents another; substage 6
