A NEW LIFE
A one celled organism resulting from fertilization
What is a zygote?
The act or process of giving birth often beginning as early as 2 weeks before delivery
What is parturition?
This term refers to the modifiability or molding of the brain through experiences
What is plasticity?
The instrument used to measure the influence of the home environment on a child's cognitive growth.
What is the HOME or the Home Observation for Measurement of Environment?
Self-conscious emotions such as embarrassment, empathy, and envy can only come after children have development this
What is self-awareness?
Genetic makeup of a person containing expressed and unexpressed characteristics
What is genotype?
Delivery of a baby by surgical removal from the mother's uterus
What is cesarean delivery?
During this stage the brain is the most modifiable and the most vulnerable
What is birth to 3?
A systematic process of providing services to help families meet young children's developmental needs
What is early intervention?
This temperament is represented in about 40% of all children
What is easy temperament?
A chromosomal disorder that occurs when there is an extra chromosome on the 21st chromosome
What is down's syndrome?
Most women chose this type of regional anesthesia during childbirth that blocks nerve pathways that carry the sensation of pain to the brain
What is an epidural?
A fatty waxy coating of neural pathways on synapses which makes communication possible
What is myelin or myelination?
This is a term for the understanding that a person or object still exists even when out of sight
What is object permanence?
This is the socialization process by which children learn appropriate gender roles
What is gender-typing?
Clinical services that advise prospective parents of their probable risk of having children with hereditary defects
What is genetic counseling?
A condition caused by immaturity in the liver of a baby that gives skin and eyeballs a yellowish color
What is neonatal jaundice?
The recommendation for nutrition for the first 1-2 years of life
What is breast feeding?
This is a forerunner of linguistic speech that is an utterance of sounds that are not words
What is prelinguistic speech?
This is distress shown by an infant when a familiar caregiver leaves
What is separation anxiety?
The unique environment in which each child grows up with distinctive influences that affect one child differently from another
What is the nonshared environment?
Babies born at less than 5-5 1/2 pounds at birth
What is a low birth weight baby?
Automatic, involuntary, innate responses to stimulation
What are early reflexes?
Two most important things to keep in mind regarding brain development from Birth - Age 3
What are experiences and repetition?
This a term used for a child's independent control of their behavior to conform to socially accepted expectations
What is self-regulation?