Theories and Theorist
Prenatal Development
Birth and the Baby
Babies and Newborns
Physical Development
100
An orderly, integrated set of statements that
•describes behavior.
•explains behavior.
predicts behavior
What is a theory
100
The number of days before your mid term exam on November 12th
November 12th
100
A Consequence of babies having a less developed Central Nervous System
Why babies are more sensitive to pain
100
The long-form of SIDS
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrom
100
inborn automatic response to a particular form of stimulation
What is a reflex?
200
Darwin’s ideas of natural selection and survival of the fittest are still influential. “Social Darwinism”
What is Darwin's theory
200
•any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period.
Teratogens
200
What is a Punnet Square
200
True or False
Babies can hear loud and soft sounds at birth
What is True
200
a developmental milestone that typically occurs at 9 to 12 months of age; the coordination of the index finger and thumb to hold smaller objects; represents a further development of fine motor skills
What is pincher grasp
300
Social interaction vital for cognitive development
Cooperative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society
Proxima Development
What is Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory
300
•People concerned with own personal goals
•Value independence
What is individualism
300
One example of a reflex babies were born with
•Eye blink
•Rooting
•Sucking
Swimming
300
Infants will _____________- their birth weight within the first year.
What is triple
300
control over actions that help infants get around in their environment
What is Gross Motor Development?
400
Child develops within a complex system of relationships affected by the surrounding environment
•Microsystem
•Mesosystem
•Exosystem
•Macrosystem
•Chronosystem
What is Ecological Systems Theory
400
One example of a phenotype
What is eye color etc.
400
Why a baby might cry
Hunger, pain, bored, anger
400
Reasons why families are smaller now than in the past
•Birth control and changing cultures have impacted the size of families.
•Today families are impacted by a complex array of contextual factors, including economic conditions, partnership changes, career goals, religious values, health conditions and availability of government and workplace policies.
400
A theory that describes the mastery of motor skills involves acquiring increasingly complex systems of action; When motor skills work as a system, separate abilities blend together
What is the dynamic systems theory
500
What is Dynamic Systems Perspective
500
The result of the release and fertilization of two ova
Fraternal Twins
500
By the time a child is 2 years of age their body weight is approximately _____ pounds
30 pounds
500
The adult human brain contains 100 to 200 billion of these
What are neurons
500
making sense of sight, sound, tactile, and taste information and perceiving them as integrated wholes
What is intermodal perception