Developmental themes in infancy
These are physical skills that involve large muscle groups and whole-body movement, such as running, jumping, and climbing.
What are gross motor skills?
This infant feeding method is linked to stronger immunity, lower obesity risk, improved brain development, and reduced SIDS risk.
What is breastfeeding?
During infancy (birth–2 years), children learn about the world through their senses and actions. Piaget called this stage:
What is the Sensorimotor Stage?
True/False. Fathers undergo biological changes post-birth. New fathers experience testosterone drop.
True
A bacterial infection of the lining of the brain, especially the hazardous to infants.
What is meningitis?
During the first few months of life, babies begin lifting and turning this part of their body while on their stomach.
What is the head?
This environmental exposure increases an infant’s risk of SIDS, asthma, ear infections, and respiratory problems.
What is secondhand tobacco smoke?
Piaget divided the sensorimotor stage into this many substages.
What are six substages?
Babies who regularly interact with ______ show higher developmental scores.
Who are grandparents?
The sudden and unexpected death of an infant less than a year old for which no physical cause can be found.
SUIDS (sudden unexpected infant death syndrome)
Between 8–10 months, babies often begin moving by doing this on their hands and knees.
Crawling
This term refers to the sudden and unexpected death of an infant under 1 year old, including SIDS and accidental suffocation.
What is SUID? (Sudden Unexpected Infant Death)
What happens during the early babbling stage of language development?
Around 3–6 months, babies start babbling and making sounds like “p,” “b,” and “m.”
True/False. A 24-month-old child should have an average of about 50 spoken words
True
The ability to hold an image of an object or person in the mind.
What is Object Permanence?
What is the ages and stages questionnaire?
(ASQ) is a developmental screening tool used to check if young children are meeting expected developmental milestones.
Prefrontal cortex
What is the holophrastic stage of language development?
Around 9–12 months, a baby uses one word to express a whole sentence and may overextend word meanings (e.g., calling all animals “dog”).
What is it called when babies cry after being left by their primary caregiver.
What is Separation anxiety.
A blanket, toy, or teddy bear that a child uses for comfort when the caregiver is absent.
What is a transitional object?
Research suggests that children born during March 2020 may show mild delays in language and social skills due to reduced interaction during this global event.
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
True/False. The majority of brain neurons are created before birth.
True
A condition in which a child’s weight falls below the 5th percentile for age. It can be organic (caused by a medical condition) or nonorganic (caused by emotional deprivation or difficult family situations).
What is failure to thrive?
During what year do babies begin to experience secondary emotions such as embarrassment, shame, guilt, and pride?
During the second year of life
Child abuse in which the caregiver induces symptoms of illness in the child.
What is Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (formerly known as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy)?