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Chapter 3 The First Two Years: Body and Mind Flashcards

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1
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birth weight does what at 1 year

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triples

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height at age 2 is typically what of adult height

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half

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newborns sleep hours

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15-17

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12 months sleep hours

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12-13

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sleep specifics vary because of

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biology, caregiving, and culture

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head sparing

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biological mechanism that protects brain when malnutrition disrupts the body growth, brain is the last part of body to be damaged

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early dendrite growth is called

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transient exuberance

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limbic system

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produce emotions

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amygdala

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register emotions

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10
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babies need what or otherwise it stunts brain

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simtulaiton

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well known abusive head trauma in infants

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shaken baby syndrome

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hearing develops during

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last trimester

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13
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least mature sense at birth

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vision

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pain and temp are often connected to

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touch

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gross motor skills

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large muscles
- torso, back, legs, walk, jump

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16
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every basic motor skill develops over the first

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2 yeats

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cephalocaudal

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we develop skills to do things with the top of our head before leg related
EX: holding head up first

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proximodistal

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we can do things closer to that central core than further away at the outskirts
EX: moving body to roll over before specific movements with hands

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fine motor skills

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small body movements
esp of hands and fingers

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20
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fine motor skills is shaped by

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culture and opportunity

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21
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what is one thing that suggests infant brain has inborn readiness to learn

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gaze following

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gaze following

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infants will naturally look to where someone else looks

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23
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2 types of infant memory

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implicit
explicit

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implicit memory

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memory that is nonverbal
EX: memory for a movement

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explicit memory

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language dependent
EX: when I hear someone say outside I get excited

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which memory type is longer to emerge

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explicit

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27
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when are implicit learning strategies learned

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early in life

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schema

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mental structure that processes information, perceptions, and experiences

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assimilation

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process of making new information part of ones existing schema

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accommodation

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the act of changing our though processes when a new object or idea doesn’t fit our concepts

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31
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equilibrium

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balance between assimilation and accommodation

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32
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sensoimotor age

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0-2

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33
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what does it mean that there are 3 circular reactions

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no beginning or end to learning

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34
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circular actions lead to

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cognitive development

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35
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primary circular reactions

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focused within infants body
EX: sucking thumb is pleasurable

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secondary circular reactions

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outside of body
between baby and someone else

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37
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object permanence

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objects continue to exist when they are no longer visible or detectable through the other senses

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38
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do we have object permanence before 8 months

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no

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39
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at 18 months we have A not B error which is

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do not understand movement of objects and will look in original spot

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40
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symbolic represenaton

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language is an example of a symbol which represents something else
EX: baba=bottle

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41
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tertiary circular reactions

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begin to take independent actions, experiments which are goal directed
includes wider world information gathering from experiments

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42
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how are infants similar in language development

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they follow the same sequence

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43
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who founded the field of cognitive development

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Piaget

44
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Piaget was the first to do what and not just describe the process of development

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try to explain

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Piaget may have devoted too little attention to

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social and cultural influences

46
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it is unclear if cognitive development really occurs in

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discreet stages

47
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productive (expressive) language

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the words produced by an individual

48
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receptive language

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the words that are understood by an individual

49
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which type of language is larger throughout our life

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receptive

50
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child directed speech is also called

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motherese

51
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what is motherese

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high pitched, simplified, and repetitive way adults speak to infants, preference for voices over noises

52
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cooing

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soft vowel sounds

53
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babbling

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extended repeitition of certain syllables, occurs between 6-9 months
EX: ba ba

54
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do deaf babies babble

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yes

55
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gestures

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powerful means of communication such as pointing

56
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when do first words happen

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1 year

57
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first words can become

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holophrases

58
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naming explosion

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once vocab reaches 50 words it builds rapidly

59
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number of words from 19 to 21 do what

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double

60
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gramar

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includes all devices by which words communicate meaning
EX: sequence, prefixes, suffixes, intonation, volulme, pronouns

61
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proficiency in grammar correlates with

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sentence length

62
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skinners ideas of language

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infants need to be taught through positive reinforcement and repetition

63
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second theory on language

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infants communicate because humans have evolved as social beings

64
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Chomsky

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infants teach them selves because it is innate, language acquisition device

65
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what contributes to SIDs

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sleeping position

66
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how should babies be positioned

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on their back

67
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immunization occurs in two ways

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illness or vaccination

68
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herd immunity

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if almost all people in a community are immunized, no one dies of that diease

69
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4 pros to breast feeding

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higher IQ/better academic outcomes
less likely to develop allergies/asthma/obesity
antibodies for childhood ideates
balance of nutrition adjust to age

70
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stunting

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failure of children to grow to a normal height for their age due to severe and chronic malnutrition

71
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wasting

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tendency for children to be severely underweight for their age as a result of malnutrition

72
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what measurements reveal if an infant is progressing or not

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height
weight
head circumference

73
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birthweight doubles by

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4 months

74
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birthweight triples by

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a year

75
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norm

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standard for a particular population

76
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growth is often expressed in a

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percentile

77
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if an infants percentile rank falls too low that is

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failure to thrive

78
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infants who rink cows milk and eat solid foods eat more soundly, is that good for the baby

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not necessarily

79
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do infants follow adult sleep pattern

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no

80
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asa, Africa, and latin America follow what sleeping pattern

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co sleeping

81
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co sleeeping

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same room

82
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bed sharing

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in the bed

83
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bed sharing increases the risk of

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SIDS

84
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never to sleep besides an infant if they have been

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drinking or using drugs

85
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head sparing

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protecting the brain during malnutrition

86
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early dendrite growth is called

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transient exuberance

87
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experience expectant growth

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some basic experiences are needed for the brain to grow

88
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experience dependent growth

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human brains have built in plasticity
- experiences depend on culture

89
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expected experiences, do the need to happen for normal maturation to occur?

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yes

90
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dependent experiences ______ happen, because of them one brain differs from the other

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might

91
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all babies cry because what is not developed yet

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prefrontal cortex

92
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shaken baby syndrome does what

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makes blood vessels in the brain rupture and neural connections break

93
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response to screaming crying baby should be

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comfort

94
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binocular vision, can infants do this

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no, so they use their two eyes independently

95
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breast feeding relierves pain by

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distraction
breast milk is an anesthetic

96
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when can babies sit unsupported

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6 mo

97
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language begins when

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newborns cry

98
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by what age to they produce sentences

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2

99
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holophrase

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single word that expresses an entire thought
EX: dada? Dada! dada.

100
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responding to babbling promotes

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speech later on

101
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language learning needs to be reinforced/ taught

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skinner

102
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infants communicate because humans are social beings

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social impulses foster infant langauge

103
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language and learning is genetically programmed

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infants teach self/chomsky

104
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Chomsky believed children are born with what which allows children to derive the rules of grammar quickly

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langage acquisition device

105
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what type of sleeping reduces SIDS

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back

106
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colostrum

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thick high calorie fluid

107
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compared to cow milk, human milk is more

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sterile, digestable and rich in nutrients

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