The time period during which the greatest increase in height and weight occurs.
What is the first year of life?
100
The basic nerve cell of the nervous system.
What is a neuron?
100
Waking, eating, sleeping, and elimination or otherwise known as repetitive cyclical patterns of behavior.
What are rhythms?
100
Unlearned, unorganized, involuntary responses that occur automatically in the presence of certain stimuli?
What are reflexes?
100
Physical stimulation of the sense organs.
What is sensation?
200
The principle that suggests that growth follows a pattern that begins with the head and upper body parts and then proceeds down to the rest of the body.
What is the cephalocaudal principle?
200
The gap at the connection between neurons, through which neurons chemically communicate with one another.
What is the synapse?
200
The terms that describes the degree of awareness an infant displays to both internal and external stimulation.
What is a state?
200
The average performance of a large sample of children of a given age.
What is the norm?
200
The sorting out, interpretation, analysis, and integration of stimuli involving the sense organs and brain.
What is perception?
300
Development proceeds outward. Based on the Latin words for "near" and "far."
What is the proximodistal principle?
300
The terms that describes unused synapses being removed from the brain.
What is synaptic pruning?
300
During this state a baby demonstrates behaviors of both wakefulness and sleep; there is generalized motor activity; the baby's eyes may be closed, or they may open and close rapidly.
What is the sleep wake transition?
300
This is the theory of how motor skills develop and are coordinated.
What is the dynamic systems theory?
300
The ability to detect sound and pinpoint the direction from which it is emanating.
What is sound localization?
400
Simple skills typically develop separately and independently but are later integrated into more complex skills.
What is the principle of hierarchal integration?
400
The fatty substance that helps insulate neurons and speeds the transmission of nerve impulses.
What is myelin?
400
Some researchers think that this provides a means for an infants brain to stimulate itself.
What is autostimulation?
400
The condition of having an improper amount and balance of nutrients that can produce several results, none good.
What is malnutrition?
400
The approach that considerations how information is collected by various sensory system is integrated and coordinated.
What is the multimodal approach to perception?
500
The principle that explains the different growth patterns of a child’s body size, nervous system, and sexual characteristics.
What is the Principle of independence of systems?
500
A specific, but limited, time usually early in an organism's life during which the organism is particularly susceptible to environmental influences for some particular facet of development.
What is a sensitive period?
500
The period os sleep that is found in older children and adults and is associated with dreaming.
What is Rapid Eye Movement (REM)?
500
The function of this reflex is to protection from falling.
What is the moro reflex?
500
These are options that a given situation or stimulus provides.