Conception and Genetics/Prenatal Development
What is the period of the zygote?
This is the term for the first milk produced by the mother often called liquid gold.
What is colostrum?
This is a deep, emotional bond that a child forms with a primary caregiver for safety, comfort, and security.
What is attachment?
This is the type of grasp that uses the thumb and index finger to pick up small objects.
What is the pincer grasp?
This is what happens to synapses in the brain when they are not used.
What is pruned away?
This is the term for how our genes are expressed in an observable way.
What is phenotype?
These are the ABCs of sleep.
What are alone, back, crib?
This is the type of temperament that usually has a positive mood, regular body functions, is adaptable, with low intensity in response to stimulation.
What is an easy temperament?
This involves the large muscles used in locomotion to achieve broad motor movements.
What is gross motor?
This is the percentage of the brain that is developed by age 5.
What is 90%?
This is the stage of labor in which the placenta is delivered.
What is stage 3?
What are swaddling, shushing, side or stomach-lying, swinging, and sucking?
This is the stage of John Bowlby's attachment theory where separation anxiety occurs.
What is clear-cut attachment?
This is a food you should never feed to a baby under the age of 1.
This is the term for how children express complex ideas in a single word or phrase.
What are holophrases?
This is a blood disorder that causes odd-shaped blood cells which lead to decreased oxygen supply in the blood.
What is cystic fibrosis?
This is how far away newborns can see.
What is 8 to 10 inches?
This is the stage of John Bowlby's attachment theory where stranger anxiety occurs.
What is attachment in the making?
These are signs a baby is ready to start solid foods.
What are sitting up on their own, showing interest in foods others are eating, grasping objects, bringing hands and objects to their mouth, and no tongue-thrust?
This is an infant's ability to see an action and reenact it at a later time.
What is deferred imitation?
This is the structure that provides the baby with nutrients and removes wastes from the baby while in the womb.
This is the term for the body's awareness of night and day.
What is circadian rhythm?
This is the ability to use learned strategies to manage and control one's emotional experiences and expressions in a healthy and appropriate way.
What is emotion regulation?
This is the term for how development progresses from top to bottom.
What is cephalocaudal?
This is the term for when a child or individual takes new information and tries to fit it into existing schemas.
What is assimilation?