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babies vision at birth

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babies have poor vision and eye focus and have a visual acuity of 1/30th the level of an adult improves in first 6 months

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spontaneous visual preference test babies

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  • infants presented two visual stimuli, spaced out in the left and right visual field
  • lead to preferential looking
  • which stimulus do they look at the longest and then find most interesting
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Frantz findings

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face, jumbled face, contrast control, infants prefer face at 5 days olds suggesting a preference for faces

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bushnell findings

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Infants just 12 hours old found to prefer looking at their mother’s face than a stranger’s , could be that there was a smell they prefered rather than mothers face

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when do infants get central vision?

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2months

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do infants prefer more attractive faces

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    • 2 month olds and newborns look longer at attractive faces (Langois et al., 1991; Slater et al 1998).
  • Infants may be drawn to these as they reflect a prototype.
  • Innate facial recognition.
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why can a 6 month baby tell the difference between primates but 9 month cannot?

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9 month baby couldnt tell the difference but a baby of 6 months could because they have loads of sysnapses more than what we dont use, the ones we dont use die tahts why ten months coulndt

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in what ways can habituation be used as a diagnostic tool?

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  • Birth difficulties can result in slower habituation - may indicate neurological defects.
  • Early habituation speed predicts later IQ after up to 10 years (Bornstein & Sigman, 1986).
  • Visual recognition memory (degree of preference for novelty) predicts IQ at age 11 (Rose & Feldman,1985).
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when do infants show interest in unnatural events?

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they do show interest at 7 months but not at 5

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what is Baillargeon Drawbridge task

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  • infants familiarised with event of of a flap roatating on the table 180*
  • there was a possible and impossible event
  • possible = flap roatated but stopped when met cube
  • impossible = goes full 180*
  • 3 and a half months could pick up on it
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how is high amplitude sucking used in habituation

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  • Sucking an innate reflex.
  • Infants can vary rate and pressure at which they suck.
  • Dummy is connected to a pressure transducer.
  • When it reaches a predetermined level a stimulus appears.
  • Can be used in habituation procedures.
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at what age do people fail the drawbridge task?

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3 months

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at what age can infants differentiate between phonemes

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2 months old they can differentiate between bat and pat

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at what age can japanaese infants difernetiate between sounds

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6-8
ra and la

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evidence of transnatal learning

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  • newborns prefere - mothers voice
  • newborns remeber stories heard in the womb - react more too them
  • HR responds to sounds at 12 weeks gestation
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what is high density event related potentials

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  • Involves placing ‘geodesic net’ composed of large number of electrodes onto head.
  • Sensors pick up the natural electrical changes at the scalp as groups of neurons are activated within the brain.
  • Infants’ brains show more widespread activation when presented a face than adults – evidence gradual specialisation and pruning of connections with development.
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neural basis for caregiving

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there are biological mechanisms that give us an inclination to care more for a child even if there no biological relationship

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explanation of neotified

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found that people would have a more positive response to babified, cute things. making products more appealing.

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infant smile before on month

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Before 1 month, infants’ smiles are reflexive not in a social context

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when do babies start to smile in social contexts

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1-2 months

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when infants use smiling as a means to get something else

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8 months they start to use smiling in order to build attachments

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can babies smile before birth

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yes evidence for prenatal smiling at 24-26 weeks gestation

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what is considered complex emotions

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an emotion that arise from having a sense of self

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what is michael lews cognitive arributational model

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  • cognitive-attributional model of the self conscious emotions:
    • emotions depend on cogntive ability
    • Self conscious emotions require sense of self (embarssment, jealousy, empathy, shame etc)
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mirror self recognition task - whgen do they start to pass?

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nfants given red dot on head, look in mirror, can teh ysee that the dot is on them, 12-24 months they start to pass this test.

do young infants experience complex emotions

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coy smile

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Mothers play with babies in front of the mirror, infants would stare at babies in the mirror then show these smiles. perceived as shy, or embarrassed, these don’t necessarily mean complex and sense of self
in 2-4 month babies

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children with someone in mirror study

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80 babies, 4 conditions, no self-reflection and reflection, child on its own or with someone, mirror = smiling increases = increases the most with stranger, representing need to explore and interact with the world?

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when do babies show jealousy

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6 month year old, negagtivity when mothers were positive towards a doll rather than a book

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when did piaget say babies are jealous

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8 months

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is crying a social signal?

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  • could just be for homeostasis
  • highest at 6 weeks
  • crying isnt common in all culturs and no negatives of this
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Field experiment

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babies 36 hours old, live model of face and babies mirrored the behaviour - doesnt necessarily mean they understood the expression

emotions and actions, happy and not, being nice to teddy or not.

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how often do infants cry in first weeks ?

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1- 3 hours per day in the first 6 weeks of life.

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3 patterns Schaffer (1971

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  • 3 patterns Schaffer (1971) recognized by mothers:
  • Basic (e.g. hunger) starts arhythmically, builds up.
  • Mad/angry: with phases varying in length.
  • Pain: sudden onset, long loud cry-breath holding.
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proto conversations

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  • infants orientate their eyes to someone eslse and this is reciprocated at 6 weeks to learn about the world
  • pre-speech lip, movements, hand getsure and coos
  • tronick still face procedure, 2m old infants play with mum then mum stops face and baby cries to try get her attention.
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reasons for gesturing

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  1. reducing anxiety
  2. help understand others
  3. to help us think
  4. to increase affiliation between us and the listener
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what is a gesture?

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  • emblem isn’t considered, these are consciously known and understood, for example a wave. some can be culturally specific.
  • sign language isn’t really considered a gesture
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dietic gestures

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pointing can be concrete or abstract

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iconic and semantic gestures

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gestures can mislead children, children had to watch a robbery then asked children questions and children (3-6) reported false information when gestures mislead them

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metaphoric gestures

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  • maths and spelling is abstract (cognitive)
  • beat gestures used by politicians
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vgotsky

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  • they learn via response associations
  • For example:
    • Infant reaches towards something they want, the mother interprets this as the infant signaling, and gives them the item.
    • Through repeated experience, the infant learns that this gesture (e.g., reaching or pointing) elicits a certain response (e.g., acquiring the object).
  • Speech and gestures and tightly coupled that helps them learn and give insights into the language system
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when does babbling start?

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6 months 40%

42
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does babbling occur with hadn movements

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75% together

43
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chidlren born with deeaf parents babbling

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  • Hand babbling increased
  • delay in language development
  • babbling is a linguistic act since children with deaf parents babble with their hands more
  • study —> things strapped to hands, tracked hand movements and found that the deaf group did gestures close to their body as sign language users do
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what age does word comprehension, deictic gestures (pointing) and culturally derived gesture routines (waving hello) begin?

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around 8-10 months

45
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what is an imperative point?

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imperative get the adult to do something

46
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what is a declaritive point?

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getting the adult to know something
- to help look for objects
- to let others know their thoughts

47
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at one year what gesture do infant do more of

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impertaive

48
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what does pointing tell us about infants?

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1.They want others to feel things: expressive declaratives for sharing emotions and attitudes about things.

2.They want others to know things: informative declaratives for helping others by providing them with needed or desirable information.

3.They want others to do things: imperatives or requestives (either more individualistic or more co-operative) for asking others to help them in attaining goals.

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at what age do infants do symbolic play?

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around 12 months infants start using things in the environment, symbolic play, drinking from empty cup, holding bannana as a phone

50
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evidence for cultural differences in gestures

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america vs itally

  • American children produced very few symbolic gestures compared to their high production of pointing gestures.
  • Italian children produced as many symbolic gestures as points.
  • Symbolic gestures of American children were typically conventional (e.g. No, All-Gone).
  • Gestures of the Italian children referred to:

Objects (wiggling nose for RABBIT).

Actions (empty hand to mouth for EAT).

Characteristics (waving hands for HOT).

(Iverson, Capirci, Volterra & Goldin-Meadow, 2008).

51
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hydrocephalus

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brain CT scan of a white collar worker, he had hydrocephalus as a baby (water on the brain), neural plasticity allowed him to survive

52
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what effect did zeka virus have on infants

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abnormal skull - below average head size - brain doesnt grow at normal rate - microcephraly

53
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what affect did chernobyl have on new borns

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babies born with abnormalities and a peak of down syndroyme

54
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what are the three prenatal stage?

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zygote stage, embryonic, fetal

55
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what is zygote (germinal stage) stage

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  • wo weeks after conception
  • proceeds down fallopian tube, rapid cell division, implants in wall of uterus
  • placenta forms to provide oxygen and nutrients and removes waste
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what is embryonic stage?

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  • 3-8 weeks
  • the amniotic sac, placenta and umbilical develop
  • the core of our bodies start to develop
  • hindbrain (subfunctions) - mid brain - forebrain (cerebral cortex) 90% optimsise SA sulki and the folds, 20% of our weight in the womb
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what are the three layers of embryo?

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  • endoderm - organs
  • mesoderm - muscles skeletons
  • ectoderm - sensory cells, nervous system. neurulation - formation of neural tube and neural crest, foundation of the brain
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describe birth of neurons

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o have 100 billion neurons we need mass neural proliferation: on average about 250,000 new neurons are added every minute

neurogenesis - birth of cells

neurons develop from neural cells and progenitor cells

birth = most neurons

most neurons present at 25 weeks

Cellular development

glial cells - surround and protect the neurons

neural migration - cells migrate to parts of the brain - where they develop specialised structure

myelination - cells are insulated in a fatty sheath improving synaptogenesis

synaptogenesis - the forming of synapses begining in early prenatal life

59
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what cells surround and protect neurons

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glial

60
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when is the most critical period of gestation for development

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2-24 weeks of gestation - severe developmental problems - caused by viral infections and genetic abnormalities / insufficient blood supply

61
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what is the foetal stage/

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rapid development of muscles and nervous sytem

62
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when do all body parts devlop

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3rd month

63
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by what month have reflexes like sucking and swalling have developed

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5 months

64
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at what month can eye open

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6 months

65
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at what time do babies have a chance of surviving premature birth

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22 – 26 weeks = the age of viability – the fetus’s physical systems are advanced enough that it has a chance to survive if born prematurely.

66
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descibe sleep in the womb

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  • 7 months most time sleeping
  • every 20-40 minutes will alternate between REM and non-REM sleep
  • yawning
67
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what two processes reduce neurons and connecting fibres?

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synaptic pruning
programmed cell death apoptosis

68
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what is synaptic pruning

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axons and dendrites disposed of if particular neuron not receiving much stimulation.

69
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Programmed cell death (apoptosis

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when new synapses are formed, some surrounding neurons die to provide more space.

70
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what is the purpose of eliminating brain cells

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helps achieve more efficient functioning

71
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when do hearing and vision mature in the womb

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6 months

72
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what continues to develop into one year

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cerebellum continues develop in y1 to help muscle tone and balance

73
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what are the last areas of the brain to develop

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prefrontal cortex

74
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thalidomide

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controlled for morning sickness - phocomelia - not fully formed limbs - 46 countries -10,000 cases - 20 - brain damage - 24 = limbs

75
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what factors affect fetal development

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  • Drugs, illegal and legal: e.g. thalidomide, warfarin, tetracycline, heroin, cocaine.
  • High caffeine dosage: miscarriage, low birth weight, prematurity.
  • Parental factors: e.g. age, diet, emotional state.
  • Disease: e.g. rubella, herpes simplex, chicken pox.
  • Metals: e.g. lead, mercury.
  • Radiation: e.g. cell death, chromosome injury.
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effects of foetal alcohol syndrome

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Physical defects:

  • Flattened midface.
  • Thin upper lip.
  • Indistinct/absent philtrum.
  • Short eye slits.

Growth suppression:

  • Lower birth weight.
  • Height and/or weight low.

Central Nervous System

  • Impaired fine motor skills.
  • Learning disabilities.
  • Behaviour disorders.
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perry and pollard study into neglected children ?

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  • erry and Pollard (1998) examined the brains via neuroimaging of 122 neglected children, some of whom also had pre-natal drug exposure.

Frontal Occipital Circumference (FOC): brain growth and organisation were all worse than a comparison group of non-neglected children

but if they were removed from negelct the brain can change

change is better quicker they are removed from neglect

78
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diamon study into rats neglect

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diamond - observed the cortical structure of brain of rats raised in enriched or impoverished environment

cortical thickness depended on environment

79
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what can neonatess do (less than 4 weeks)

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moro reflex - arm flinging

80
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what procedures can we use to asses babies?

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Looking time methods:
Spontaneous visual preference.
Habituation – novelty.
Violation of expectation .
Preferential sucking.
Eye tracking.
Physiological measures.
EEG, heart rate and more.

81
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how does spontaneous visual prefernce work?

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Infant presented two visual stimuli, reasonably well spaced to left and right in the visual field.
Stimuli often lead to preferential looking.
Possible to measure which stimulus the infant looks at longest and therefore prefers/finds most interesting.
Novel = more looking, bored = less looking.

Our dependent variable (DV) is therefore
looking time (seconds/milliseconds).

82
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at what age do infants prefer faces?

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5 days of age
found to look at mums at just 12 hours of age

83
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how do infants look at human face?

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1-month = edges
2-month = central

84
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when do infants look at novel face?

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6 months

85
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how can habituation be used as a diagnostic tool?

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Birth difficulties can result in slower habituation - may indicate neurological defects.
Early habituation speed predicts later IQ after up to 10 years (Bornstein & Sigman, 1986).
Visual recognition memory (degree of preference for novelty) predicts IQ at age 11 (Rose & Feldman,1985).

86
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when do infants look at unnatural events?

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show preference for unnatural events at 7 months but not at 5 months

87
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what is high density event related potentials?

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Involves placing ‘geodesic net’ composed of large number of electrodes onto head.
Sensors pick up the natural electrical changes at the scalp as groups of neurons are activated within the brain.
Infants’ brains show more widespread activation when presented a face than adults – evidence gradual specialisation and pruning of connections with development.

88
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social refernicngt study with checkered floor

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    • babies put on checekered flaw with false drop (platstic screen) babies are less likely to go across if mother shows a scared face more likely to cross if happy, showing importance of non-verbal communication
  • one year baby will cross if stranger tells them to if their mother looks happy
89
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at ten months in terms of infantile communication, what happens?

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infants have a three month lag

90
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gesture speech

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complementry - item
suplementry - giving aditional info
complementry before supplementry gestures

91
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when is first words?

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12 months

92
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enactive naming

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Around 12 months infants begin to produce actions carried out on object, e.g. holding phone to ear, drinking from empty cup.
These play schemes argued to be enactive names for things (Escalona, 1973).
Demonstrate infants’ ability of symbolic representation and form the beginnings of symbolic play (Inhelder et al 1971).

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awareness of others experiment - 12 month old babies

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  • babies were shown a puppet behind a screen
  • 12 month babbies pointed and expected paraent too look suggetsing they understood parents could unserstand
94
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teratogens

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-any agent that causes an abnormality following fetal exposure during pregnancy
- most damaging in the embryonic stage
- each organ has a different critical time - heart 20-40 days
-

95
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evolution on baby development

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  • humans have largest brain
  • head being 255 of infants body mass
  • then to 2%
  • only specie to show differential development
96
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lissencephaly

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  • smooth brain
  • lack of sulci and gyri
  • severe developmental problems - seziures etc
  • viral infections, not enough blood, genetics
97
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potting metaphor

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Neurogenesis/Synaptogenesis: clay formation.
Cell specialisation: sculpting
Synaptic pruning/cell death: sculpting
Perceptual narrowing: unused clay trimmed away.
Sensitive periods: the clay does not dry all at once, parts may harden before others.

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