mental development characterized by infants ability to organize and coordinate sensations with physical movements and actions.
What is the sensorimotor stage
100
focuses on the infants ability to process information.
What is the Fagan test of Intelligence
100
is the process by which infants become uninterested in a stimulus and respond less to it after it is repeatedly presented to them/
What is Habituation?
200
25% of its adult weight
What is newborn's brain weight
200
Gross motor skills involve large muscle activities. Fine motor skills involve movements that are more finely tuned than gross motor skills.
What is the difference between Gross motor skills and Fine motor skills
200
involves understanding that objects and events continue to exist even when they cannot directly be seen, heard or touched.
What is object permanence?
200
provides a developmental quotient, which is an overall developmental score that combines subscores in motor, language, adaptive, and personal-social domains.
What is Gesell's development test
200
-two hour old newborns made different facial expressions when they tasted sweet, sour, and bitter solutions.
- at 4 months of age, infants prefer salty tastes, which newborns found adverse.
What is Taste?
300
Neuron
What is nerve cell that handles information processing at cellular level.
300
seeks to explain how motor behaviours are coordinated for perceiving and acting.
What is the Dynamic systems theory
300
by the middle of the first year after birth, infants understand that the size of a cylinder is a casual factor in determining how far a bug will move when it is hit by the cylinder.
What is causality?
300
an assessment of infant development, has three components: a mental scale, a motor scale and an infant behaviour profile.
What is Bayleys scales of infant development.
300
-newborns can differentiate odours.
-young infants show a preference for the smell of their mothers breast by six days old.
cognitive structures that help individuals organize and understand their experiences change with age.
What is schemes?
400
Phase1- 0-2 months attachment to human figures.
Phase2- 2-7 months attachment focused on one person.
Phase3- 7-24 months specific attachements form , infant is able to seek contact from caregivers actively.
Phase4- 24 months on a girl directed partnership is formed.
name the phases in the attachment theory.
400
-newborns respond to touch, particularly with the sucking and rooting reflex.
-an important ability that develops during the first year is to connect information about vision with information about touch.
-newborns can feel pain.
What is Touch?
500
Lateralization
What is the specialization of functions in one hemisphere of the cerebral cortex or the other.
500
information through sensory receptors.
What is Sensation?
500
Simple reflexes, First habits and primary circular reactions, secondary circular reactions, Coordination of secondary circular reactions, Tertiary circular reactions, internalization of schemes.
What is name the 6 substations?
500
an observational measure of infant attachment.
What is Mary ainsworth's strange situation?
500
-in the last few months of pregnancy, a fetus can hear sounds.
-infants are born with the ability to discriminate speech sounds from any language, but without constant exposure, they lose the ability by their first birthday.