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1
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What is a full term birth?

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Full term: 38-42 weeks from conception

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What is considered preterm birth?

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37 weeks

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What are the risk factors of having a preterm birth?

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  • not able to finish prenatal development
    -Low Birth Weight: < 5.5 pounds
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What can cause low birth weight?

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-smoking, alcohol, low weight gain, nutrition, chromosomal abnormalities

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5
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What is vernix caseosa?

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(“Cheesy Varnish”); protects skin from bacteria

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How long on avg. Do new born babies sleep for?

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16 hrs. Per day

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7
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What are innate reflexes?

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Uncontrolled response to external stimulation

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What are some examples of innate reflexes that we keep?

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  • Blinking
  • coughing
  • sneezing
  • jerking
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What are some examples of innate reflexes that we lose?

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-Rooting
- grasping
-swimming
- walking/stepping
- Moro/ startle
- babinski

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10
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What are the capabilities of a new born?

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  • Head can turn while lying down
    -vision is nearsighted but can focus well 12-18 in
    -other senses- fully developed
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What is neonatal abstinence syndrome?

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When drugs pass from the placenta to the baby and after birth, the baby suffers from withdrawal

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What are long time complication of low birth weight?

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•Health issues: High blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, neurological problems, reproductive issues
•Death in childhood; cognitive, educational, and behavioral problems.

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What percentage of the brain is developed by year 1?

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80%

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14
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What is the maturation process?

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One task must be achieved before the next

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What are the major approaches to cognitive dev. ?

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  • Psychometric
  • behavioral/learning approach
  • information processing approach
  • cognitive approach
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What is the three main components of behavioral I learning perspective?

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Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Observational learning

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What is classical conditioning?

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Envoirmental stimuli’s produces reflexive response

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What is operant conditioning?

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Associating consequences with actions

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What is Observational learning?

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Imitation

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What is information processing approach?

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  • Attention and memory
  • concept formation (simple categorization)
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What is infantile amnesia?

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Children can’t remember anything from before they were three

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Why do children have infantile amnesia?

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Because the frontal lobe which is used for critical thinking isnt fully developed

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What is Vygotsky’s
Social development theory?

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Social interaction leads to learning, and forming apprenticeships with adults

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What is the sequencefor learning language?

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  • Social speech
  • private speech ( out loud)
  • inner speech
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What are the characteristics of social speech?

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Baby speaks for their own entertainment, unaware if anyone else can understand

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What are the characteristics of private speech?

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Speech spoken and directed to themselves, helps control behavior

27
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What are the characteristics of inner speech?

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Perform actions w/o talking out loud to self or others around

28
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What are the stages of Piaget’s theory? (4)

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  • Sensorimotor
  • pre-operational
    -concrete operation
  • formal operational
29
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What is the age range for sensorimotor stage?

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(Birth- 2yrs old)

30
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What are the age ranges are proportional stage?

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(2 -7 years old )

31
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What are the age ranges for concrete operational?

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(7 - 11 years old)

32
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What are the age ranges for formal operational

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( Adolescence - adulthood)

33
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Sensorimotor stage

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Construct an understanding of the world by sensory and physical experience ( exploring envoirment )

34
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What is object permanence?

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Understanding objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen

35
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What are the results of sensorimotor stage?

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  • Object permanence
  • spatial knowledge
  • some causality
  • # ’s
  • some categorization
    -imatation
  • understand pictures as symbols
36
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What influences language development?

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  • Brain maturation
  • social interaction
  • family characteristics
  • reading aloud
  • child directed speech
37
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What is the 1st stage of language development?

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6-8 weeks: cooing

38
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What are the visual capabilities of new borns?

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  • Nearsighted( can only focus well @12-18 in)
    -prefer faces ( black and white)
  • can distinguish red and green
39
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What is the apgar scale/ purpose?

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a quick way for health professionals to evaluate the health of all newborns at 1 and 5 minutes after birth

40
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On the apgar scale what does the # rating scale signify?

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  • 0-3 critically low
  • 4-6 fairly low
  • 7-10 generally normal
41
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What is the Cephalocaudal Principle?

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growth and development follow a pattern that starts with the head then proceeds to the rest of the body (head to toe).

42
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What are two methods that will help the preterm baby?

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-maternal education
- kangaroo care

43
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What does the brain stem control?

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Coordinates breathing, sleeping, and sucking

44
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What does the cerebral cortex control?

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Cognition like thinking, storing, memories,and reasoning

45
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What is SIDS?

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Sudden infant death syndrome is a sudden, unexplained death during sleep of healthy infants

46
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What is the second stage of language development?

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Babbling (6-8 months)

47
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What is the third stage for language development?

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Holophrase (12 months)

48
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What is the fourth stage of language development?

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Morphology (2 -3 years)

49
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What age range do infants go through trust vs. Mistrust according to Erikson’s psychosocial theory?

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0 to 18 months

50
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Around what age range do children feel autonomy vs. Shame/doubt

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12 or 18 months to 3 years

51
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What is the first stage of attachment according to bowlby?

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Drawn to humans but inconsistent preference (0-2 mon.)

52
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What is the second stage of attachment according to bowlby?

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Preference for a regular caregiver (2-7 months)

53
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What is the third stage of attachment according to bowlby?

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Develop specific attachments; cling to caregiver when upset; use caregiver as base to explore (7-24 months)

54
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What are the different attachment styles?

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  • Secure attached
  • avoidant
  • ambivalent / resistant
  • disorganized/disoriented
55
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What is stranger anxiety?

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Wariness of an unknown person

56
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What is separation anxiety?

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Distress when a caregiver leaves (10-18months)

57
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What are the early signs of emotional development?

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  • Crying
    -smiling
  • laughing
58
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What are the different innate emotions?

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  • Interest
  • distress
  • contentment
59
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What are the different emotions around six months?

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  • Anger
  • surprise
  • joy
  • sadness
  • fear
  • digest
60
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What are the different emotions around 18 to 24 months

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  • Empathy
  • jealousy
    -Embarrassment
61
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What are the different emotions around 30-36 months?

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  • Shame
  • guilt
  • pride

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