Unit 3 Flashcards
4 principles of birth
Cephalocaudal, Proximodistal, Hierarchal, Independence
Cephalocaudal
Growing top to bottom, brain
Proximodistal
Inside out, heart and lungs
Hierarchal
parts develop together, simple to complex
Independence
parts grow when they grow
Parts of a neuron
dendrites, axons, myelin, synapse,
Dendrities
recieve messages
Axons
send messages to other nuerons
Myelin sheets
make sure electric charge goes to the right transmitter
Synapse
small gap between cells
Synaptic pruning
if you arent using the pathways, they ‘prune’
Newborn sleep
16-17 hours, broken up, rem, autostimulation
sleeping baby gets in a groove
sleep teaching or self-soothing training
SIDS
babies just die fr outta no where
Why sids go down
1994 start of the Safe to Sleep campaign, which urged parents to put their babies on their backs at bedtime
Reflexes
Swimming, eyeblink, rooting(mouth shit)
Malnutrition
nonorganic failure to thrive
Marasmus (malnutrition)
Stop growing
Kwashiockor (malnutrition)
Stomach and limbs fill w water
Sensation
the stimulation of sense organs