Vocab Chapter 5

Question 1

Primitive Reflexes

Answer 1

Involuntary responses that gradually disappear

Question 2

Survival Reflexes

Answer 2

Reflexes essential to sustain life

Question 3

Motor Competence

Answer 3

How infants use perceptual information to use motor movements

Question 4

Myelination

Answer 4

Fatty tissue that covers the nerve cells within the central nervous system (CNS)

Question 5

Fontanelles

Answer 5

“Soft spots” between infant’s skull bones

Question 6

Perception

Answer 6

The interpretation of what is known through the senses

Question 7

Supine

Answer 7

Lying flat in ones back

Question 8

Prone

Answer 8

Lying on the tummy

Question 9

Syndrome

Answer 9

Group of combined symptoms characterizing a disorder

Question 10

Synapses

Answer 10

Connections between brain cells

Question 11

Botulism

Answer 11

Often fatal food poisoning

Question 12

Cephalocaudal

Answer 12

Refers to head to toe development

Question 13

Proximodistal

Answer 13

Refers to direction of control from body’s center outward towards your fingertips

Question 14

Temperament

Answer 14

An individuals behavior style

Question 15

Ossify

Answer 15

Change from cartilage or membrane to bone (hardening of bones)

Question 16

Learning

Answer 16

Behavior changes resulting from experience

Question 17

Satiation

Answer 17

Feeling of fullness after eating