Test 2 Flashcards
Norm or average length is
20 inches
Infancy is the most rapid development you have
In life
Infants double their birthweight in the
First four months (they don’t eat real food yet)
Infants _____ their birthweight in a year
Triple
Not a lot of ____ growth in the first year
Height
What age does a rapid heigh gain starts
Age 2
Synaptogenesis
The formation of synapse between neurons
What does brain development govern
Reflexes
Is crying a reflex
Yes
NBAS
Done on every baby before they leave the hospital
Norm
An average or standard for particular behavior
Hearing is the most developed sense at
Birth
What is the least developed sense at birth
Vision
How long does it take for vision to fully develop
A year
What sense is formed in the first week
Taste
which tastebuds in order do baby’s identify
Sweet. Salty. Sour. Bitter.
Baby’s don see color until
4 months
What’s the first color babies see
Red
Baby’s see a lot of grey before
They can see any color
What is a key function
Sleep
Now many hours a day do newborns sleep?
17 hours
NBAS is a test often administered to new borns,
That measures responsiveness and records 46 behaves, including 20 reflexes
Reflexes that maintain oxygen supply
Breathing reflex
Reflex that maintains constant body temperature
When infants are cold, they cry, shiver, and tuck their legs close to their bodies
reflexes that manage feeding
The sucking reflexes cases new borns to suck anything that touchestheir lip
Define gross motor skills
Physical abilities involving large body movements, such as walking and jumping.
50% of babies stand, walk well, run what age (months)
12, 13, 18
90% of babies stand, walk well, run at age (months)
14, 15, 20
Fine motor skills
Physical abilities involving small body movements, especially if the hands and fingers, such as drawing
The word fine in fine motor skills means
Small
Sensory motor
(0/2) learn first by using 5 senses and develop motor skills
Primary circular reaction
0/4 months
1. Reflexes; (0/1mo) (coordinate reflexes, sucking )
- Adaptation of reflexes (1/4mo)
Example of Adaptation
Sucking a pacifier differently than a nipple
Secondary circular reaction
(1/12mo)
1. Make interesting sights last (4/8mo)
- Anticipation of events (8/12 mo)
Example of make interesting sights
Baby clapping when mom says patty cake
Example of adaptation
Putting moms hands together to make her know baby wants to play patty cake
Goal directed behavior
They see something they get it
Object permanence
(1 yr)
Something exist even when not in sight
Tertiary curricular reaction
- Active experimentations (12/18 mo)
6. Mental combinations (18/24mo)
Example of active experimentation
Putting a teddy bear in a toilet flushing it
Give an example of mental combination
Before Flushing, remembering that the toilet overflowed a mom was angry last time
Language talk special times
6 mo 1 yr 18 mo 10mo/ 2 years 2 years
6 months
Constant sounds
4/6 months
Vowels
Babbling
4/6 mo consonants and vowels
1 years
First words
Holophrase
One word sentence that has meaning
Example of holophrase
Toddler saying “up” or “cookie”
18 months
50 words
10mo/2yrs
Naming explosion
2 years
Multi word sentences
What is naming explosion
A sudden increase in an infant’s vocabulary, especially in the number of nouns, that begins at about 18 months
Speaking baby talk and using simple words for infants
0/6mo
After 6 months you should talk normal and
Increase words to bigger words
3 types of temperaments
Easy, slow to warm up, difficult
Easy
(40%) positive mood, adaptable, fall into routine
Slow to warm up
(15%) middle mood, middle adaptable, middle routine
Difficult
(10%) negative mood, not adaptable, doesn’t fall into routine
What is a social smile
A smile Evoked by a human face
Define attachment
Emotional bond
What did Ainsworth want out of strange situation
To know if every baby is securely attached to the parent
Define secure attachment
A relationship in which an infant obtains both comfort and confidence from the presence of his or her caregiver
Insecure avoidant attachment
A pattern of attachment in which an infant avoids connections with caregiver
Insecure resistance/in the ambivalent attachment
A pattern of attachment in which an infant anxiety and uncertainty are evident,
Disorganized attachment
A type of attachment that is marked by an infant in consistent reaction to the caregivers departure and return
At birth birth weight is checked and compared to the norm which is
7.5 pounds
Self awareness
A persons realization that he or she is in a distinct individual whose body, mind and actions are different from others
Self-awareness begins around
5 months
Behavior and focuses on
Observable behavior
Direct opposite of psychoanalytic theory
Behaviorism
“Let us limit ourselves…”
John Watson
Behavior and focuses on
Observable behavior
Direct opposite of psychoanalytic theory
Behaviorism
“Let us limit ourselves…”
John Watson
Behavior and focuses on
Observable behavior
Direct opposite of psychoanalytic theory
Behaviorism
“Let us limit ourselves…”
John Watson
Eriksons two stages
Trust vs mistrust (1 yr)
Autonomy vs doubt (1-3yrs)
Define transient Exuburance
The great but temporary increase in the number of dendrites that developed in an infant’s brain during the first two years of life
