Periods of Development
conception → birth
What is Prenatal?
Controls automatic & reflexive processes (ex. heart rate, breathing, gagging)
What is Medulla?
The evaluation of a newborn's physical condition and need for immediate medical care, administered 1-5 minutes after birth.
What is APGAR test?
birth → use of communicative language (1st word)
What is Infancy?
allows brain to respond to experience/learn
What is neural Plasticity?
Performed to discover the 4 attachment categories proposed by Mary Ainsworth.
What is Strange Situation test?
~age 60 → death
What is Late adulthood?
nerve fibers that allow communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain (develops most during early childhood)
What is Corpus callosum?
Assess a child's ability to understand that another person can hold a different belief than their own.
What is False-belief test?
puberty → “legal age” established by norms
What is Adolescence?
Neurons develop and migrate to refine sensory systems (continues to develop after baby born –some sensory neurons not developed enough for “pain” to register)
What is Neuronal Proliferation?
Measures fluid intelligence by testing a person's reasoning skills by requiring them to decipher the underlying rule governing a letter sequence.
What is Letter Series test?
entrance of formal education → puberty
What is Middle childhood?
fully developed in adolescence (consists of Amygdala, Hippocampus, Thalamus, Hypothalamus)
What is Limbic system?
Assess the infant in the first few days/couple of week (7 key areas: Habituation, Orientation, Motor tone/activity, Range of state, Regulation of state, Autonomic stability, Reflexes)
What is Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment?