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1
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From the upper head to the lower body

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Cephalocaudal development

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From the trunk out from the central axis to periphery

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Proximodistal

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The tendency for behavior to become less loose and diffuse and more specific and distant

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Differentiation

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Infants usually double their birth weight in about 5 months and triple it in

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1 year

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Height increases by around

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50% in first year

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Growth occurs in

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Spurts

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Infants grow in second year

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4-6 inch , gain 4-7 lbs

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Girls mature

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Earlier

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Children’s heads are proportionately

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Larger

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Impairs growth in infancy, includes low birth weight, bmi

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Failure to thrive

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Organic based FTT

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Underlying health problem

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Non organic , non biological FTT

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Psychological roots

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Children less likely securely attached to the mothers, large family, unstable environment,

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Reactive attachment disorder

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A form of FFT involving malnutrition , life threatening,

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Marasmus

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Tendency to resume genetically determined growth pattern once problem is resolved

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Canalization

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About, of children live below federal poverty level

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41%

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Solid foods often introduced at

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4-6 months

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Breast milk ughout

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1st year

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First solid food is usually iron- enriched

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Cereal, then strained fruits, vegetables

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Breastfeeding is the

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Natural way

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Early form of breast milk

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Colostrum

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Colostrum

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High in proteins, Carrie’s antibodies, reduces maternal risk of breast cancer , builds maternal bone strength

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Newborns prefer breast milk rather

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Formula

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Disadvantages of breastfeeding

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Breast milk can transmit hiv, alcohol, drugs, no environmental hazards , mothers must be adequately nourished

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Breast milk remains ideal even if mother

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Smokes

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Basic units of nervous system

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Neurons

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Each neuron has

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Cell body, dendrites, and axon

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Axon terminals release messages in the form of chemicals called

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Neurotransmitters

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Many neurons are tightly wrapped with white fatty

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Myelin sheaths

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Process of myelin coating axons

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Myelintion

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31
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Developing organisms command center

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Brain

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Brain of neonate weighs less than

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1 pound

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Vital in control of heartbeat , part of brain stem

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Medulla

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Above medulla, helps maintain balance, coordination

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Cerebellum

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Enables human learning, thought , memory

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Cerebrum

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36
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First major growth spurt

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Prenatally, fourth and fifth months of gestation

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Second growth spurt

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Between 25th week of gestation and end of second year , dendrites and axon terminals proliferate, connections between neurons

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38
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Begins around 6 moth

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Hearing

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39
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T-6 months after birth complies

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Vision

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40
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Maturation

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Nature

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41
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Nature plus sensory stimulation and motor activity affect

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Brain development

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42
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Motor activity

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Nurture

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43
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Neonates can raise head around

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1 month

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44
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They can lift chests while lying on stomachs around

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2 month

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45
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Infants can hold heads without support

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3-6

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46
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Infants grasp objects around

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4-6 months

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47
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Between fingers and palm

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Ulnar grasp

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48
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Pincer grasp

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Use of thumb (9-12)

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49
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Creeping around

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8-9 moths

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50
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Can walk on own

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12-15

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51
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Neonates have poor

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Peripheral vision

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52
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Neonates look at stripes

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Longer than blobs

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53
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Infants do not develop fear of heights until they have experienced moving around

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Gibbons and walks classic visual cliff study

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54
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Perception of object as the same despite sensations it produces varying under different conditions

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Perceptual constancy

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Perception of object as the same size despite different retinal image sizes due to distance

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Size constancy

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Perception of object as the same shape despite different retinal image shapes due to viewing from different positions

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Shape constancy

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57
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Neonates can orient their heads. In the direction of

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Sound

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58
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Absorbing new events into existing schemes (mental constructs)

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Assimilation

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Modifying existing schemes if assimilation cannot make sense of novel events

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Accommodation

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60
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recognition that an object/person continues to exist when out of sight

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Object permanence

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Absorbing new events into existing schemes (mental constructs)

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Assimilation

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62
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Modifying existing schemes if assimilation cannot make sense of novel events

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Accommodation

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63
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Cognitive processes develop in an orderly sequence of

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Four stages

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64
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Cognitive processes develop in an orderly sequence of four stages:

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–Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operations

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sensorimotor stage

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First 2 years of cognitive development, through sensory and motor activities

66
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first month: assimilate sources of stimulation into innate reflexes

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Simple reflexes

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1–4 months: repeat stimulating actions that first occurred by chance

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Primary circular reactions

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4–8 months: repeat activity patterns because of their effect on the environment

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Secondary circular reactions

69
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recognition that an object/person continues to exist when out of sight

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Object permanence

70
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“out of sight is out of mind”

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For 0-6 month olds

71
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Mental representation of objects develops around

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Sixth month

72
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By 8–12 months, infants seek to retrieve

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completely hidden objects

73
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demonstrates mental representation as early as 9 months

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Deferred imitation

74
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Infants may have an imitation

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“reflex” shortly after birth

75
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Imitation in infants is related to mirror

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Neurons

76
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Children’s cognitive development involves internalizing skilled strategies from joint problem solving with more skilled partners

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Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory

77
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Caregivers may provide this zone by helping infants play with blocks and picture books

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Zone of proximal development

78
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–178 mental scale items
●Verbal communication, perceptual skills, learning and memory, and problem-solving skills

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Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID)

79
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Gross motor skills (standing, walking, and climbing) and fine motor skills (use of hands and fingers)

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111 motor scale items

80
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Attention span, goal directedness, persistence, and social and emotional development

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Behavior rating scale

81
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Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS)
–Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS)

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Screening infants for handicaps

82
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ability to discriminate previously seen objects from novel objects

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•Visual recognition memory

83
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Based on habituation

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Visual recognition memory

84
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Infants with greater visual recognition memory later got higher

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IQ scores

85
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Newborns only

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Cry

86
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begins in second month

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Cooing

87
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First vocalization that sounds like human speech (6-9)

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Babbling

88
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(repeating syllables) at 10–12 months

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Echolalia

89
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what children can understand

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Receptive vocabulary

90
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what children can use)

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expressive vocabulary

91
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linguistic speech

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First wood

92
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Use language to label objects in environment

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Referential language style:

93
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Use language to engage in social interactions

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Expressive language style

94
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Generalizing meaning of one word to other things they cannot name yet

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Overextension

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Average number of morphemes used in a sentence

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Mean length of utterance (MLU

96
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Smallest unit of meaning in a language (word or part of word)

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Morpheme:

97
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Single words used to express complex meanings

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Holophrases

98
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Parents serve as

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Models

99
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Foreign sounds drop out when ignored

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Extinction

100
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Parents reinforce children’s successive approximations to real words

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Shaping

101
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most people think of as love or affection

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Attachment

102
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If contact not maintained, show

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Separation anxiety

103
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mildly protest mothers’ departure.
•seek interaction upon reunion with mother.
•are easily comforted by mother.

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Secure attachment

104
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least distressed by mothers’ departure; ignore mothers on reunion

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Avoidant attachment

105
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show severe distress upon separation; alternate clinging/pushing away upon reunion

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Ambivalent/resistant attachment:

106
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seem dazed, confused, disoriented; may move toward the mother but look away

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Disorganized-disoriented attachment:

107
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Birth to 3 months: indiscriminate attachment

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Initial pre-attachment phase

108
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3 or 4 months: preference for familiar figures

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Attachment-in-the-making phase

109
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Attachment-in-the-making phase

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Clear-cut attachment phase

110
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Most infants (in day care or not) are

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securely attached

111
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More independent, self confident, outgoing, affectionate, and cooperative

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Social development of children in day care:

112
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seeking another’s perception of a situation to help form our own view

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Social referencing

113
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Refers to ways young children control their own emotions.

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Emotional Regulation

114
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Brain develops faster than any other organ in

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Early childhood

115
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Continuing myelination of nerve fibers contributes to increase

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In brain size

116
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brain often can compensate for injury to specific areas

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Plasticity

117
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Gross motor skills

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Development of large muscles used for locomotion

118
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Gross motor skills develop earlier and more rapidly than

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Fine motor skills

119
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Fine motor skills

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Small muscles used in manipulation and coordination

120
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Example of fine motor skills

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Children’s drawings

121
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Diarrhea usually mild in the United States, but leading cause of

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child death in developing countries

122
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Motor-vehicle accidents are single most

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common cause of death

123
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In the United States, many children take a

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transitional object to bed

124
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More severe than nightmares

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Sleep Terrors

125
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Appetite becomes

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Erratic

126
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Occur more in mornings, during REM sleep

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Nightmares

127
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Children with frequent nightmares or sleep terrors may fear going to sleep and develop

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Insomnia

128
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somnambulism

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Sleepwalking

129
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In toilet training, maturation plays a

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Crucial role

130
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is failure to control the bladder at the “normal” age

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Enuresis

131
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nighttime “accident”

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Bed wetting

132
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lack of control over bowels

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Encopresis

133
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Infants who are taller will show a subsequent slow

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In their birth

134
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Federal programs have improved poor children’s

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nutritional status.

135
Q

These include the majority of

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African American, Latin American, and Native American children.

136
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Breastfeeding helps mothers respond more calmly to

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Stress

137
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Breastfeeding protect against childhood

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lymphoma

138
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Many neurons are tightly wrapped with white, fatty

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Myelin sheaths

139
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Not complete at birth; part of maturation process

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Myelination

140
Q

Neonates are very

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nearsighted (about 20/600)

141
Q

Most dramatic gains in visual acuity:

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birth to 6 months old, to around 20/50

142
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an emotional tie between two individuals

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Mary Ainsworth

143
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attachment is essential to infant’s survival

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John Bowlby

144
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Stages of attachment

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Initial pre attachment phase, attachment in the making phase, clear cut attachment phase

145
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preference for familiar figures

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Attachment-in-the-making phase

146
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Contact comfort is key to attachment.

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Harlow’s view of attachment

147
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Caregiver satisfies the infant’s needs (food – trust).

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Psychoanalytic view of attachment

148
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Attachment is an inborn fixed action pattern (FAP) which occurs in the presence of a species-specific releasing stimulus

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Ethological view of attachment

149
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•In humans, a baby’s smile in response to

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human voice or face

150
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emergence of social smile

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2–3 months

151
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In nonhumans, FAP occurs during the critical period:

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Imprinting

152
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About 17% of children in day care are moderately more

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aggressive than children raised at home

153
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Development of self-concept

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Mirror technique—18 months—infants demonstrate self concept

154
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Characteristic way of relating and adapting to the world; present very early in life

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Temperament

155
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Malnutrition

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Starving a body makes you vulnerable to other illness and conditions

156
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The role of the environment in the development of temperament

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Goodness of Fit:

157
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Parents modify expectations, attitudes, and behaviors toward the child to encourage behavior in the desired direction

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Good fit

158
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Discrepancy between child’s behavior style and parent’s expectations and

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Poor fit

159
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Rough-and-tumble play

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Gross motor skills

160
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Globally, greatest causes of death for children under age 5 are, in order:

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pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles

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