PSM103 Flashcards
The point at which a person reaches sexual maturity and is physically capable of fathering or conceiving a child.
Puberty
VHSA growth-retarding disease affecting infants who receive insufficient protein and too few calories.
Marasmus
An organ, formed from the lining of the uterus and the chorion, that provides respiration and nourishment of the unborn child and the elimination of its metabolic wastes.
Placenta
The vast majority of the neurons a person will ever have is
100 to 200 billion
If the fetuses are two-thirds of all, how was the fetus positioned in the womb?
With its right ear facing outward
The natural childbirth movement arose from the work of
Grantly Dick-Read
These body parts overshoots adult levels in childhood and then declines to adults levels later in adolescence.
Lymphatic system
Synthetic version of folate
Folic acid
A sequence of physical maturation and growth that proceeds from the center of the body to the extremities.
Proximodistal development
Male sex hormone produced by testes
Testosterone
External agents such as viruses, drugs, chemicals and radiation.
Teratogens
The process by which neurons are enclosed in waxy myelin sheaths that will facilitate the transmission of neural impulses.
Myelinization
The pituitary hormone that stimulates the rapid growth and development of body cells
Growth hormone
Term used to describe the full range of congenital problems commonly observed in the offspring of mothers who consumed alcohol during pregnancy.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
A mild tranquilizer that can produce a variety of malformatiof of the limbs, eyes, ears, and heart of the body.
Thalidomide
Prepared childbirth originated in Russia but was popularized by
Fernand Lamaze
A hormone produced by the thyroid gland; essential for normal growth of the brain and body.
Thyroxine
Name given to the prenatal organism from the third through the eight week after conception.
Embryo
A term used to describe the fathers’ fascination with their neonates.
Engrossment
Term used to describe the strong affectionate ties that parents feel toward their infant.
Emotional bonding
Scientists believe that the human brain has evolved so that the infant brain can be highly responsive to the effects of experience. The brain is thought to produce an excess of neurons and synapses so that it can be responsive to many different kinds of sensory and motor stimulation. This responsiveness also results in synaptic and neural degeneration when the neurons that are not stimulated do not continue to function. What is the term for this aspect of brain development?
Plasticity
The term for oxygen deprivation at birth
Anoxia