Newborn worksheet/chap4 Flashcards
How do reflexes help newborn interact with world?
Guide growth, foundation of development, reflexes breast feeding
- get nutrients, protection, avoid unpleasant stimulation, larger motor activity, proper nervous system
Apgar score
Breathing - HR - muscle tone - presence of reflexes - skin tone
0-2 scale, 7+ ideal
Neonatal behavioral assessment
- autonomic - motor - state - social
28 items
Behavioral states in newborns
- Alert inactivity: calm and attentive
- Waking activity: unfocused and uncoordinated motion
- Crying: vigorously and agitated uncoordinated motion
- Sleeping: still and breathing regularly vs soft movement and breathing irregularly 16-18 hrs
Types of cries
- Basic: soft, not intense
- Mad: intense
- Pain: sudden, long, gasping
Different features of temperament
- Surgency/extroversion: happy, active, vocal, seeks stimulation
- Negative affect: angry, fearful, frustrated, shy, not easily soothed
- Effortful control: focuses attention, not distracted and can inhibit responses
Height and weight changes 0-2yo
40% of energy goes to growth
- growth slows by 2 years
- very fast weight gain 1 yo, then start to slow but still faster than 2+ yo
What nutrients do kids need?
Really pushing breast feeding
- carbs, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals
- formula should only be a supplement and only with clean water
Consequences of malnutrition
- damages brain, affecting attention span and learning: quiet, express little interest, very lethargic to conserve energy
- need improved diet and parents edu to foster child’s development. Address biological and sociocultural forces.
- 1/4 children malnourished, significant effect on cognitive development
Nerve cells
Neurons receive and transmit info. Contain dendrites that receive info, cell body that has life-sustaining machinery, and an axon to send information
- myelinated neurons at 4 months
Stages of brain development
- Zygote: neural plate folds into lobe, produces neurons at 10 weeks
- 28 weeks: virtually contains all neurons it will ever have
- Synaptic pruning soon after, at 1 year synapses peak
- Axons and dendrites form
- neuroplasticity important for development
- stimulus, experience, required for specialization
What skills are involved in learning to walk?
Prone chest up, sitting, creep, walk - go by gestational age
- posture/maintain balance, moving limbs, stepping, walking alone in 15 months
- 7 mo to sit
- 10 mo to creep
- 14 mo to walk
- 24 mo kick a ball
How do infants learn to use their hands?
- Reaching, grasping - 4 mo
- Coordinating fingers to grab an object: 12mo
Infant senses
- yes: smell, taste, pain, hear
1. Smell: unpleasant/familiar
2. Taste: sweet <3 and salty
3. Respond to pain (cry)
4. Hear: sensitive to pitch 4-5 mo recognize name
Sight
- 0-1mo see about 20ft
- 12 mo: begin detail and color and see like adults
- true recognition requires more than one sense
Coordinate info between diff sensory modalities
Intersensory refinement: information that is presented simultaneously to different sensory modes
Self-aware
15-17 mo babies recognize reflection, important step to becoming self aware
- well-established by 2 yo
Preschooler’s self-concepts
Characteristics of themselves, possessions, and preferences. Very concrete, understand desires and behaviors
Theory of mind
Understanding of relationship between mind and behavior
- 2-5 yo develop naive understanding
- differentiate themselves from others
- connect desires to behaviors
Piaget’s stages
- Sensorimotor: 0-2 yo
- Preoperational: 2-6 yo
- Concrete operational: 7-11
- Formal operational: 11+
- children cannot skip stages
Schemes
Mental structures that organize information and regulate behavior
- change constantly, adjusting to children’s experiences
Assimilation
Taking in information that is compatible with what is already known
- incorporating them into schemes
Accomodation
Changing existing knowledge based on new knowledge
- schemes get modified based on experience
Equilibration
A process by which when disequilibrium occurs, children reorganize their schemes to return to a state of equilibrium
- restoration of balance, replaced by more advanced schemes