Growth
The reflex that results in newborns toes fan out and the big toe turns upward?
What is the Babinski reflex
Term that describes unexplained death of an infant under 12 months.
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)?
An infant's change in response after being repeatedly shown a stimulus.
What is habituation?
Skills involving larger muscle groups.
What are gross motor skills?
Structures that allow us to organize and interpret information.
What are schemas?
The newborn reflex that is called the "fencing pose"
What is Tonic neck?
Average number of hours do newborns spending sleeping?
What is 14-17 hours
What is4 - 7 weeks post conception?
The name of the study that helped pre-reaching infants successfully pick up objects.
What is "sticky mittens"?
Changing a schema in response to new information.
What is accommodation?
Term that refers to infants who demonstrate a significant lack of growth.
What is failure to thrive?
Illness that emerges shortly after birth due to the immature liver having difficulty breaking down oxygen-carrying red blood cells.
What is jaundice?
Term that refers to young infants' ability to discriminate between faces of different races and species, which disappears in the first year of life.
What is perceptual narrowing?
Theory proposing that motor development occurs through the interaction of multiple layers of development.
What is developmental systems?
Infants' ability to remember and repeat actions they observed at an earlier time.
What is deferred imitation?
The theory based on data from newborn walking studies to explain why reflexes disappear
What dynamic systems theory?
The types of laws in the U.S. that aim to reduce accidental death and injury of infants from firearms?
What is Safe Storage Laws and Child Access Prevention Laws
Jerky eye movements in the first few months after birth.
What are saccades?
Area of the brain that is reponsible for early fine and gross motor development.
What is the cerebellum?
The appropriate support for an infant or child to learn from a more knowledgeable other
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
The thee building block nutrients needed for typical development in infancy
What is zinc, iron, and calcium?
What is colostrum?
The term that refers to testing infants' ability to see details.
What is visual acuity? What is the Teller Acuity Test
Method used in many cultures, particularly in West Africa, for holding children.
What is back carrying?
Infants' use of intentional actions to see their affect on the external environment.
What are tertiary circular reactions?