Everything Flashcards
Failure to Thrive
low progress growing as fast as they should
Body Proportion
The ratio of head compared to body
Reflex
Involuntary movements or actions
Voluntary Grasping
Voluntary hand-holding response
Gross motor skills
running, jumping, large muscle functions, legs and arms
Fine motor skills
Fingers and toes (using scissors)
Physical Development
The manner in which our physical-self grows
Intellectual Development
The process of learning to interact with others and to express oneself to others
Stimuli
Stimuli represent anything that can trigger physiological, psychological, or biological change.
Perception
how children use their senses to perceive the world around them.
Object Permanence
The ability to know if an object is still there if it goes behind something
Enriched environment
An environment with motor, thinking, sensory, and social stimulation
Sensory Stimulation
When one or more of your senses are activated (touch, smell, hear)
Temperament
A child’s emotional style and how they adapt to situations
Social Development
Development of social skills/rules
Emotional Development
ability to perceive, assess, and manage emotions
Attachment
A deep bond with a person (parents, siblings)
Separation Anxiety
Scared/nervous when separated from parents
Frontal Lobe
Memory, intelligence, behavior, emotions, motor functions, and smell
Temporal Lobe
hearing, smell, memory, speech
Parietal Lobe
Pain, touch, sensations of hot and cold, and speech
Occipital Lobe
Vision, speech
Brain Stem
Breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, reflexes, sleep
Cerebellum
Body movements and balance
Cell body
sends an instruction to the body through the axons
Axon
long thick cables with terminal buttons that transmit all the signals from a neuron to other neurons
Dendrite
trees, short bushy cables that allow each neuron to receive signals sent by other neurons
Myelin Sheath
the coating of the axons
Neurotransmitter
chemicals released by the axon
Neurons
brain cells that send and receive chemical and electrical pulses among each other to direct the various tasks of the brain
Nucleus
the big middle disc thing
Firing
a chemical and electrical signal leaves the axon of one neuron and jumps the synapse to travel to the dendrite of another neuron.
Glial Cells
brain cells that support neurons. They have a large cell body with legs extending out from the body.
