A measure used to determine the health of a newborn. It rates a baby's heart and respiratory rates, muscle tone and body color, and reflex irritability.
What is Apgar Scale?
Emotional connection between an infant and caregiver.
What is attachment?
Emotional connection that a parent or caregiver develops with a baby.
What is bonding?
A test given shortly after birth to measure a baby's reflexes and responses to light, sounds, and touch. Attention and ability to be soothed are also observed.
What is Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale?
Development that occurs from the top of the head down to the extremities.
What is cephalocaudal development?
Movement that is accomplished by laying on the stomach and pulling forward with shoulders and arms.
What is crawling?
When the stomach is raised off the floor and movement is achieved by moving the hands and knees to pull the body forward.
What is creeping?
Reactions to foods that are unpleasant, such as digestive or behavioral problems.
What is food intolerances?
The period from birth to the first birthday.
What is infancy?
Babies from birth to age 1 month.
What is neonates?
The understanding that people, places, or objects still exist even when they are out of sight or can no longer be heard or touched.
What is object permanence?
When a baby scrapes up an object using all of the fingers into the palm of the hand.
What is Palmar grasp?
Picking up items using a coordinated motion of thumb and forefinger.
What is pincer grasp?
A mother's intense sadness and oftentimes emotional withdrawal from others after giving birth.
What is postpartum depression?
The time mothers need for both physical and psychological adjustment after giving birth. Usually lasts six weeks.
What is postpartum period?
Pattern of development that occurs from the body core to the extremities.
What is proximodistal development?
Understanding spoken language even without the ability to verbally respond.
What is receptive language?
The natural inclination of newborns to turn their head toward the food source when the side of their mouth is stroked.
What is rooting reflex?
Piaget's first stage of cognitive development that begins with reflexes and ends with the use of symbols.
What is sensorimoter stage?
Distress infants experience when their caregiver or parent leaves them in the care of a stranger.
What is separation anxiety?
A brain injury that occurs as a result of shaking an infant.
What is Shaken Baby Syndrome?
When infants play alone without interacting with others.
What is solitary play?
Fretfulness that occurs when around unfamiliar people, peaking in infants between 9 and 12 months.
What is stranger anxiety?
A part of personality that reflects how a person interacts with the environment.
What is temperament?
Erikson's stage in which infants must learn to develop trust relationships with their caregivers.
What is trust versus mistrust?