Growth
Brain functions that are formed based on unique interactions with the environment.
What is experience-dependent?
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?
Area of the brain containing bundles of myelinated axons.
What is white matter?
Average percentage of time infants spend in REM sleep in a given 24-hour period.
What is 50%?
The name of the reflex used to help an infant find their mother's breast.
What is the rooting reflex?
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?
Chemicals carrying electrical impulses between neurons.
What are neurotransmitters?
What "ABC" stands for in the "Back to Sleep" movement.
What is alone, back, crib?
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?
Interactions that teach a learner about culturally-valued activities.
What is guided participation?
The brain region responsible for planning and coordinating movement.
What is colostrum?
Term that refers to infants' difficulty learning from screens in the first few years of life.
What is video transfer deficit?
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?