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Growth
Learning Capacities
Development
Emotional Development
Temperament
100
At birth the head takes up _____ of the body length.
What is 1/4
100
The infant's ability to associate events that usually occur together in the everyday world is associated with this learning capacity.
What is classical conditioning?
100
This theory states that new motor skills are achieved by combining existing skills into increasingly complex systems of action.
What is the dynamic systems theory of motor development?
100
This is the broad grin that babies develop between the ages of 6 and 10 weeks.
What is a social smile?
100
This is the first influential model of temperament yielded three types of children: easy, difficult, and this one.
What is slow-to-warm-up?
200
This is the largest part of the brain.
What is the cerebral cortex?
200
This learning capacity is when infants act on their environment and their behavior is followed by either reinforcers or punishment.
What is operant conditioning?
200
This is when infants perfect reaching and grasping.
What is the first year?
200
This fear that is unfamiliar to adults but is common in infants and toddlers.
What is stranger anxiety?
200
This is the model that shows how a child’s temperament and parenting practices/environment work together to affect development.
What is goodness-of-fit?
300
This offers protection against disease and prevents malnutrition and infant death in poverty stricken areas of the world.
What is breastfeeding?
300
This learning capacity is when newborns have a primitive ability to imitate adult's facial expressions and gestures.
What is imitation?
300
This supports the development of focusing, color discrimination, and visual acuity during the first half-year.
What is rapid development of the eye and visual centers?
300
This appears in uncertain situations where infants actively seek emotional information from caregivers.
What is social referencing?
300
Because many factors affect the extent to which temperament dominates, overall temperament is considered to be ________________ stable.
What is low to moderately?
400
Marasmus and kwashiorkor are dietary diseases caused by this.
What is malnutrition
400
This learning capacity is when at birth, babies are attracted to novelty.
What is habituation and recovery
400
This accounts for infants' early pattern preferences.
What is contrast sensitivity?
400
This term refers to the strategies we use to adjust our emotional state in order to accomplish our goals.
What is emotional self-regulation?
400
______________ refers to an individual’s capacity to suppress one response and replace it with a more adaptive response.
What is effortful control?
500
This occurs in infants who are adequately nourished but lack affection and stimulation.
What is nonorganic failure to thrive
500
Removing a desirable or presenting an unpleasant one to decrease the occurrence of this response.
What is punishment?
500
According to the differentiation theory, perceptual development is a matter of detecting this.
What is invariant features?
500
These self-conscious emotions speak to a higher order of feelings.
What is guilt, shame, embarrassment, envy, pride?
500
According to at leas three studies, parents perceive these two types of babies as different within 24 hours of birth.
What is boys and girls?