Cat
The time period from birth to 1 month of age.
Neonate
Distress a baby feels when his/her parents leave.
Bonding
The time frame from birth to 1 year of age.
The distress an infant feels when seeing an unfamiliar face.
Baby turns head and opens mouth when cheek is touched.
Rooting Reflex
Babies use this when scraping up an object into the palm of their hands.
Palmer Grasp
When baby moves using hands and knees while the stomach is raised off the ground.
Creeping
Babies use this when picking up small items with the forefinger and thumb.
Pincer Grasp
When baby moves by using arms and shoulders with stomach dragging the ground.
Crawling
During the first 6 months after birth when mom's adjust both physically and psychologically.
Postpartum Period
This part of the neuron allows transmission of electrical and chemical signals to other neurons (it's the "output" section).
Axon
This sense is not fully developed at birth.
The understanding that people and objects still exist even when they are out of sight or no longer can be heard.
Object Permenance
This type of play involved the baby simply observing and focusing on an object.
Unoccupied
Administered 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth to rate the baby's heart rate, respiratory rate, muscle tone, body color, and reflex irritability.
Apgar Scale
This type of play occurs when an infant plays alone with an object.
Solitary
Piaget's first stage of cognitive development.
Sensorimotor
The space between neurons.
Synapses
This is a very serious mental condition that an extremely small percentage of mothers experience after the birth of a child.
Postpartum Psychosis
With this type of development, infants learn to control core muscles before muscles further out from their trunk.
Proximodistal
This type of language is used when a baby can understand language before they can form words.
Receptive
With this type of development, babies develop from the head downward to extremeties.
Cephalocaudal
Measures a baby's reflexes and responses to light, sounds, and touch.
Brazleton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment
A thin, white protective coating on a baby at birth.
Vernix Caseosa