QUIZ 5- 3/27/2025 PT.3 Flashcards
The reflex that causes a newborn baby to turn its head toward something that touches its cheek and to grope around with its mouth.
Rooting reflex
The newborn baby’s tendency to suck on objects placed in the mouth.
Sucking reflex
The reflex that enables the newborn baby to swallow liquids without choking.
Swallowing reflex
The reflex that causes newborn babies to close their fists around anything that is put in their hands.
Grasping reflex
The reflex that causes newborn babies to make little stepping motions if they are held upright with their feet just touching a surface.
Stepping reflex
Characteristic patterns of emotional reactions and emotional self- regulation.
Temperament
are good-natured and adaptable, easy to care for and please.
are moody and intense, reacting to new people and new situations both negatively and strongly.
are relatively inactive and slow to respond to new things, and when they do react, their reactions are mild.
“Easy” babies
“Difficult” babies
“Slow-to-warm-up” babies
Ages by which an average child achieves various developmental milestones.
Developmental norms
refers to biological processes that unfold as a person grows older and contribute to orderly sequences of developmental changes
Maturation
In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development between birth and 2 years of age in which the individual develops object permanence and acquires the ability to form mental representations.
0-2
Sensory-motor stage
The concept that things continue to exist even when they are out of sight.
Object permanence
Mental images or symbols (such as words) used to think about or remember an object, a person, or an event.
Mental representations
In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development between 11 and 15 years of age in which the individual becomes capable of abstract thought.
Adolescents- adulthood
Formal-operational stage
