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What period does lifespan development occur?

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Through out the person entire life

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What is the upper boundary in years for humans?

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122 years

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What is the life expectancy in the 20th century?

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79 years old

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What is the biological process?

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Process that produce changes in individuals physical nature…..your genes…exercising…horomonal changes

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What is cognitive process?

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Proves that produces changes in thoughts, intelligence and experience

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What is socioemotional process

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Involves changes in individual relationship with other people, emotions, personality

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What is the prenatal period?

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Conception to birth….baby is growing

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What is infancy?

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18-24 months…..language, motor skills, cordonation and socialization are just beginning

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What is early childhood?

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3-5 years…. becoming more independent and and develop skills for school

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What is middle childhood?

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6-10 years….mastering fundamental skills like reading, writing and math

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What is adolescence?

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12 to 21…. transitioning from child to adult….puberty

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What is early adulthood?

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20s-30s…establishing personal and economic independence

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What is middle adulthood?

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40s to 60s expanding personal and social involvement and helping the next generation

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What is nature vs nurture?

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The debate that tries to determine what is most important for developing into a successful adult

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What is a psychoanalytic theory?

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Says that we develop unconsciously

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What is freuds theory?

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Says that problems in life are from experience in early development

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What did Erickson theory say?

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Says that each stage has problem we must face and that issues in adulthood are because we did not face these issues head on

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What are chromosomal abnormalities and examples?

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Chromosomal abnormalities is having not enough or too many chromosomes ….. Down syndrome can occur when you have too may chromosomes….less likely if baby is had between 16 and 34

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What is a gene linked disorder?

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A disorder that can be passed from parent to offspring …sickle cell anemi

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What is the germinal period?

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First two weeks after contraception..creation of zygote and cell division..

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What is the embryonic period?

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Two to eight weeks after contraception…cell division and organs are made

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What is the fetal period?

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Begins two months after contraception and will last for the next 7 months…

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What is late adulthood

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60s to death…life review and retirement

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What is chorionic sampling?

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Tiny tissue is romoved from from the placenta

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What is amniocentesis?

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When a needle is stuck in a woman stomach to suck in the amniotic fluid

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What is maternal blood screening?

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Blood is drawn to be tested for any possibilities of birth defects

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What are teratogens and when do they have the most effect in child?

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They are anything that can cause birth defects in a child…the embryonic period is the most fragile

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What are the stages of birth?

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First contractions occur…second…head pops out…third…placenta is cut

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What is the apgar scale?

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Tests done in a child to determine if it is healthy…higher score the better

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How much weight does a newborn loose after it’s first day of life?

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7 to 10 percent

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32
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When is birth weight doubled in a newborn?

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5 months

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33
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When is birth weight tripled in a newborn?

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1 year of age

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34
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What does the frontal lobe do?

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Controls voluntary movements, thinking, personality, emotions, memory, attention, purpose

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What is the occupational lobe?

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Function is vision

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What is the temporal lobe?

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Hearing, language, processing and memory

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What are the parietal lobe?

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Spacial location, focusing, attention, and motivation control

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38
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What percentage of the brain does a 2 year old have compared to a adult?

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75 percent

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39
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What is the life expectancy for men?

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76 years

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What is the life expectancy for women?

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81

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41
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What is the leading cause of death in children?

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Motor vehicle crashes

42
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What is dementia?

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Loss of memory and judgment

43
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What is Alzheimer’s?

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Gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language and eventually physical function

44
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How long should you exclusively breast feed?

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6 moths

45
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how much doe infants grow from birth to one year?

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Tripled weight and doubles length

46
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What is rooting reflex ?

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When rubbed trying to find something to suck

47
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What is the sucking reflex?

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When something is placed in mouth it sucks

48
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What is Moro reflex?

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Being startled

49
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What is gasping reflex?

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When touching hand it grabs

50
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What is habituation?

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Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus and being presented multiple times

51
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What is dishabituation?

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The recovery of a habituated response

52
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What is the infants vision on the snell chart?

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Pupil test

53
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What is assimilation?

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Children use existing schemes to incorporate new info

54
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What is accommodation?

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Adjusting schemes to fit new information

55
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What is piagets sensorimotor stage?

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Birth to 2 The child begins to understand world

56
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What is piagets preoperational stage?

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2 to 7 The child begin to represent the world

57
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What is piagets concrete operational stage?

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7 to 14The child can now use reason and logic to

58
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What is piagets formal operational stage

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11 to death… reasoning in abstract ways

59
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What is animism?

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Belief that inanimate objects can do things that people can do…tree pushed the leaf away

60
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What is conservation?

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Altering the way an object looks doesn’t change its properties

61
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What is centration?

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Focusing on only one characteristic…glass trick one glass is taller than the other

62
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What is the zone of proximal development?

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Needing assistance or having someone present

63
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What is encoding?

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Putting emotion into words

64
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What are schemas?

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Things that hold memeory

65
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What is intelligence?

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The ability to solve problems and to adapt and learn from experiences

66
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What is sternberrgs triarchic theory?

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Says there is three kinds of intelligence analytical intelligence, creative intelligence, and practical intelligence e

67
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What is a phoneme?

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Distinct sounds that make language

68
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What is telegraphic speech?

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When you ….

69
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What is telegraphic speech?

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Short sentences….this shoe wet…..Andrew want balll

70
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What are primary emotions?

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Emotions that are present in other animals like joy, anger, sadness, fear and disgust

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What is self conscious emotions?

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Emotions that require a sense of me….empathy, jealousy, embarrassment, pride, shame guilt

72
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What is socioemotional selective theory?

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Adults become more selective of who they associate with for their own well being

73
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What is an easy child temperament?

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Child is generally in a positive mood and adapts easily to new experiences

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What is a difficult child?

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Child tends to be negative, cries frequently, slow to accept change

75
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What is a slow to warm up child?

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Low activity, somewhat negative, low intensity of mood

76
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What is social referencing?

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Looking at how others are reacting to determine how you should feel

77
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What is self esteem?

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Self worth or image

78
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What is self concept?

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Analyzing specific attributes of self…I am tall….I am a good friend…feeling important

79
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What are the big 5 factors of personality?

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Neuroticisms, openess, consciousness, agreeableness, extraversion

80
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What is the last stage of Erickson lifespan theory?

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Ego integrity vs despair

81
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What is moral development?

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Changes in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors regarding right and wrong things

82
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What is heteronomous morality?

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Justice and rules are conceived as unchangeable properties of the world

83
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What is autonomous morality?

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Children learn rules and laws are created by people….observe persons intention

84
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What are the two components of the super ego?

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The ego ideal…part of the child that wants to please parents rules

The ego conscience

85
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What is authoritarian parenting?

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Restrictive and demands respect and to follow all rules no exceptions

86
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What is authoritative parenting style?

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Encourages child to be independent…still places control in child…

87
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What is the neglectful parenting style?

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Parent is uninvolved in child life

88
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What is indulgent parenting style?

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Very involved with child but puts no control on child

89
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What are the types of child maltreatment?

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Physical abuse, child neglect, sexual abuse, emotional abuse

90
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What is ageism?

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Prejudice based on a person age

91
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What is socioeconomic status?

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Where they are based on money and place

92
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What is culture?

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Customs, art, achievements of a group of people

93
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What is brain death?

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Neurologically defined as death…no electricity in the Brian

94
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What part of the brain dies first?

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Top goes first

95
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What is hospice care?

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Program that helps the end of life be as smooth as possible

96
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What is palliative care?

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In hospice care and is supposed to reduce pain and suffering

97
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What is the leading cause of infant death?

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Sudden infant death syndrome

98
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What age de children understand the finality of death?

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4

99
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What are the stages of death?

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Denial…anger…bargaining…depression and acceptance

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