Beliefs about Babies
Specific areas of ability or experience, such as cognition, language, memory, relationships (social), or emotion.
What are developmental domains?
The phenomenon in which infants gradually lose interest in a stimulus after repeated presentations.
What is habituation?
Physical structures of inheritance consisting of DNA and supporting proteins.
What are chromosomes?
The initial phase of the first stage of labor, marked by widely spaced contractions that are not painful.
What is the latent phase?
This refers to the period between 1 - 3 years old.
What is a toddler?
An in-depth examination and description of a single individual. Also referred to as the clinical method, this is an in-depth examination and description of a single individual.
What is a case study?
Substances such as alcohol, drugs, nicotine, and radiation that are known to cause harm to the developing embryo and fetus.
What are teratogens?
A birth in which the infant emerges feet or buttocks first.
What is breech presentation?
Between 0 - 1 year old.
What is an infant?
A specifically designed research space that enables researchers to control or eliminate the influence of irrelevant or distracting factors.
What is a laboratory setting?
The first prenatal stage, beginning at conception and lasting approximately two weeks.
What is germinal stage?
A birth that occurs before 32 weeks' gestation.
What is very preterm?
This view of development emphasizes qualitative
change.
What is stagewise view?
A developmental design in which investigators study the same sample of participants over time, taking measures of their behavior or ability at specified intervals.
What is longitudinal research?
Siblings resulting from two different eggs; also known as fraternal or DZ twins.
What is dizygotic twins?
A trained layperson who provides nonmedical assistance during labor and delivery.
What is a birth doula?
The interaction of genes with each other and with the organism's internal and external environment to produce developmental outcomes, such as new structures, behaviors, and abilities.
What is epigenesis?
The degree to which differences in the dependent variable are actually due to differences in the independent variable.
What is internal validity?
A syndrome also referred to as trisomy 21, in which there is an extra chromosome 21, resulting in distinctive facial features and other physical characteristics and mild to severe cognitive disabilities.
What is Down syndrome?
An assessment used at 1 and 5 minutes after birth to provide a profile of the infant's physical health.
What is an Apgar score?