The Brain
This organ has four lobes.
What is the brain?
When speaking to infants and toddlers, the teacher should use this type of speech.
What is slow speech?
This person is known for his work in cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The young infant is in this stage of motor development.
What is security?
This pediatrician is known for caring for the baby during the birth process and published a book called Birth Without Violence.
Who is Frederick Leboyer?
This cell makes up the peripheral nervous system.
What is a neuron?
When learning to speak, the child goes from one word to this, then to phrases, then to sentences.
What is two words?
This stage is part of Piaget's cognitive development for children birth to age 1.
What is the sensorimotor stage?
The mobile infant is in this stage of motor development.
What is exploration?
After labor, it is important that this is allowed to beat until the blood stops pulsating through.
What is the umbilical cord?
This lobe in the brain controls vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
This type of language can be used before an infant can speak.
What is sign language?
From birth to one month, the child is in part of the sensorimotor stage.
What are reflexes?
The older infant is in this stage of motor development.
What is identity?
What is amniotic fluid?
The brain has two of these.
What are hemispheres?
When a baby does this, he could be bored, in pain, in discomfort, hungry, fatigued, or venting.
What is cry?
This is the term used when a baby understands that something is really there even when it is hidden (ex: "Out of sight, out of mind.").
What is object permanence?
Splaying is a type of this.
What is an infant cue?
Human gestation is this long
What is 40 weeks?
The neuron has a myelin sheath that covers this.
What is an axon?
A young infant coos or does this to speak before he can form words.
What is babble?
Transferring objects from one hand to the other is part of cognitive development for this age group.
Who are four to six-month-olds?
Infant massage is an important tool for nerve development, calming, and this development.
What is muscle development?
The mother's voice and this can be a point of reference for the newborn.
What is a heartbeat?