Part 2: Ch. 5-7

Question 1

percentile

Answer 1

a number that ranks each person compared to others the same age

Question 2

REM (rapid eye movement)

Answer 2

sleep when flickering of the eyes behind closed lids, dreaming, and rapid brain waves occur

Question 3

Head-sparing

Answer 3

a biological mechanism that protects the brain when malnutrition disrupts body growth

Question 4

dendrites

Answer 4

bring messages to cell body

Question 5

axon

Answer 5

transmits electrochemical impulses from that neuron to the dendrites of other neurons

Question 6

myelin

Answer 6

speeds transmission of signals from one neuron to another

Question 7

synapse

Answer 7

intersection between the axon of one neuron and the dendrites of other neurons

Question 8

cortisol

Answer 8

primary stress hormone

Question 9

oxytocin

Answer 9

primary bonding hormone

Question 10

transient exuberance

Answer 10

early dendrite growth during first two years of child’s life

Question 11

experience-expectant growth

Answer 11

brain functions that require certain basic common experiences in order to develop normally

Question 12

Experience-dependent growth

Answer 12

brain functions that depend on particular variable experiences. May not develop in a particular infant

Question 13

Shaken baby syndrome

Answer 13

injury or death due to baby being forcefully shaken back and forth

Question 14

sensation

Answer 14

detecting a stimulus

Question 15

perception

Answer 15

sensation reaches the brain and person is aware

Question 16

binocular vision

Answer 16

the ability to focus the two eyes in a coordinated manner in order to see one image

Question 17

Colic

Answer 17

digestive pain caused by the gut microbiome

Question 18

Gross motor skills

Answer 18

large body movement

Question 19

Fine motor skills

Answer 19

small body movements

Question 20

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Answer 20

infant suddenly dies

Question 21

herd immunity

Answer 21

if 90% of people in a community are immunized, no one dies of that disease

Question 22

What high calorie fluid is secreted in breast milk?

Answer 22

colostrum

Question 23

Protein-calorie malnutrition

Answer 23

a person does not consume sufficient food of any kind

Question 24

kwashiorkor

Answer 24

growth slows down, hair becomes think, skin becomes splotchy, and the face, legs and abdomen swell with fluid

Question 25

wasting

Answer 25

children severely underweight as a result of malnutrition

Question 26

core knowledge

Answer 26

infants have a basic understanding of how the world works

Question 27

infant amnesia

Answer 27

people forget everything that happened to them before age 3

Question 28

Implicit memory

Answer 28

non verbal memory

Question 29

Explicit Memory

Answer 29

verbal memory

Question 30

sensorimotor intelligence

Answer 30

piaget’s term for the way infants think - by using their senses and motor skills

Question 31

Primary circular reactions

Answer 31

feedback loop involving infant’s body