Chapter 3

Question 1

The term used for newborns

Answer 1

Neonates

Question 2

Incision sometimes made to increase the size of the opening of the vagina to allow the baby to pass

Answer 2

Episiotomy

Question 3

A standard measurement system that looks for a variety of indications of good health in newborns

Answer 3

Apgar scale

Question 4

Restriction of oxygen to the baby, lasting a few minutes during the birth process, that can produce brain damage

Answer 4

Anoxia

Question 5

Close physical and emotional contact between parent and child during the period immediately following the birth, argued buy some to affect later relationship strength.

Answer 5

Bonding

Question 6

Infants you were born prior to 38 weeks after conception (also known as premature infants)

Answer 6

Preterm infants

Question 7

Infants who way less than 2500 g (around 5 1/2 pounds) at birth.

Answer 7

Low birth weight infants

Question 8

Infants who, because of delayed fetal growth, weigh 90% (or less) of average weight of infants of the same gestational age.

Answer 8

Small for gestational age infants

Question 9

Infant to weigh less than 1250 g (around 2.25 pounds) or, regardless of weight, have been in the womb less than 30 weeks.

Answer 9

Very low birth weight infants

Question 10

Infants still on born two weeks after the mothers due date

Answer 10

Post mature infants

Question 11

A bird in which the baby is surgically removed from the uterus, rather than traveling through the birth canal

Answer 11

Cesarean delivery

Question 12

A device that measures the baby’s heartbeat during labor

Answer 12

Fetal monitor

Question 13

The delivery of a child who is not alive, occurring in 1 delivery in 115 in the United States

Answer 13

Stillbirth

Question 14

Does within the first year of life

Answer 14

Infant mortality

Question 15

Unlearn, organize, involuntary responses that occur automatically in the presence of certain stimuli.

Answer 15

Reflexes

Question 16

A type of learning in which an organism responds in a particular way to a neutral stimulus that normally does not bring about that type of response.

Answer 16

Classical conditioning

Question 17

A form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weekend, depending on its association with positive or negative consequences

Answer 17

Operant conditioning

Question 18

The decrease in the response to a stimulus that occurs after repeated presentations of the same stimulus.

Answer 18

Habituation

Question 19

Different degrees of sleep and wakefulness through which newborn cycle, ranging from deep sleep to great agitation

Answer 19

States of arousal