Conception and Early Pregnancy
This is the term for the fertilized egg before it has undergone cell division and implantation.
What is a Zygote?
This score is used to assess a newborn's health and well-being immediately after birth, focusing on appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, and respiration.
What is the Apgar Score?
The formula for calculating attention span.
What is Child’s age x (2 to 5 minutes)?
This refers to the method of teaching adults, including topics like self-directed learning.
What is Andragogy?
This method can be used during delivery to gently help pull the baby out.
WHat is forceps, suction, or baby vacuum?
This is the hormone that triggers ovulation by stimulating the release of an egg from the ovary.
What is Luteinizing Hormone (LH)?
This method of delivery involves a woman giving birth in a tub of warm water to help reduce pain and increase comfort.
What is Water Birth?
The toddler stage can be broken up into these three age groups.
What is
−12 to 18 months
−18 to 24 months
−two to three years?
This is the ability to think, reason, and understand the world, often associated with cognitive development
What is Intellectual Development?
This is the term for when babies begin to use their thumb and finger to pick up small objects, usually around 9-12 months.
What is the Pincer Grasp?
This is the process by which the fertilized egg attaches to the uterine lining.
What is Implantation?
This type of anesthesia is commonly used during labor to numb the lower part of the body, allowing the mother to remain awake and alert during delivery.
What is an Epidural?
This is the process in which babies begin to learn that their actions can cause a reaction, such as shaking a rattle to make noise
What is Cause-and-Effect Learning?
This stage in Piaget's theory occurs from about ages 7 to 11, when children begin to think logically about concrete events.
What is the Concrete Operational Stage?
These are the types of skills that involve small movements of the hands, fingers, and wrists. An example is a baby picking up a spoon.
What are Fine Motor Skills?
The amniotic sac and yolk sac begin to form during early embryonic development, typically occurring around this number of weeks.
What is weeks 2-3?
The cervix is considered fully dilated at this size.
What is 10 cm dilated?
At around 7-8 months, babies typically begin to develop this cognitive ability, where they understand that objects continue to exist even when out of sight.
What is Object Permanence?
This psychologist developed the theory of developmental tasks stating developmental skills, knowledge and attitudes are acquired at certain points in an adolescent’s life through physical maturity, social expectations and personal effort (includes eight different developmental tasks addressing adolescent growth and development).
Who is Robert Havighurst?
These types of skills involve large muscle movements, such as crawling or walking.
What are Gross Motor Skills?
This structure forms after ovulation and produces progesterone to help maintain the uterine lining.
What is the Corpus Luteum?
This method of delivery is a surgical procedure to deliver a baby through incisions in the mother's abdomen and uterus. (HAS to be the full name, not the shortened version!)
What is cesarean section?
At this stage of development, preschoolers typically show growing independence and begin to make decisions on their own.
What is the Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt stage (Erikson)?
Jean Piaget's four stages of children’s mental
growth.
What is
−sensorimotor
−preoperational
−concrete operational
−formal operational?
This theory suggests that people’s social and emotional development occurs in stages, and that each stage is defined by a specific conflict.
What is Erikson's Psychosocial Theory?