Sensory development
When babies nerves, muscles and eye lenses are fully developed.
What is one year after birth?
Newborn's that weight is under 3.5.
What is a very low birth weight?
Causes newborns to suffer with addiction and withdrawal symptoms.
What is heroin use while pregnant?
Heredity establishes a possible range of outcomes, the environment determines how far within that range development.
What is range of reaction?
Three influences that teratogens depend on.
What is dose, time of exposure and genetic susceptibility?
The best thing to help babies develop colours.
What is black and white stripes/patterns?
When a newborn is placed skin to skin with a parent and wrapped in a warm blanket.
What is Kangaroo care?
Results in a blunted cortisol response to stress, passive behaviour and memory deficits.
What is wildfires?
Very narrow range of reaction requiring intervention.
What is canalization?
A teratogen that is solely found in the fetus with no effect on the mother.
What is toxoplasmosis?
The distance at which newborns cannot see past.
What is 12 inches?
Extra waxy coating of a premature baby's skin.
What is Lanugo?
During gestation across the placenta, in delivery through contact with maternal blood/fluids or postpartum during breastfeeding.
What is the ways a mother can infect her offspring with HIV/AIDS?
When parents create a specific home environment. E.g., if your parents have a lot of books you'll grow up reading and with interests of books.
What is passive genetic-environmental interaction?
Prenatal period where the fetus is most fragile and susceptible to environmental influences.
What is the embryonic stage?
Average amount of sleep that children need.
What is 11-14 hours daily?
Newborn thats birth weight is less than 90% of all babies at the same gestational age.
What is small for date?
Thin upper lip, short eye slits, flattened cheekbones, narrow forehead, indistinct groove above upper lip and epicanthic folds.
People can naturally evoke responses from others.
E.g., Baby smiles at you, making you feel a positive response
What is evocative-gene environmental interaction?
Possibilities of babies born to HIV infected mothers.
What is infected and symptomatic, infected and asymptomatic, or not infected?
Modification of brain structure based on environmental experiences.
What is plasticity?
Requirements for premature babies to be released from the hospital.
What is 4lbs and apnea-free for 7 consecutive days?
A teratogen that leads to placenta disturbance, oxygen deprivation, brain damage and SIDS.
What is smoking?
The tendency to seek experiences compatible with one's predisposition.
E.g., If you are an active person but no one in your family is, you will actively seek out friends who are active like you
What is active-genetic environmental interaction?
Suffers from apnea, temperature control issues and inability to self-comfort.
What are premature babies?