Prenatal Development/ Birth
What is the easiest way to check if a baby is healthy?
A baby weighing scale. Commonly used in many countries to check whether a baby was born healthy and to see if there over or under weight.
What is the 1 stage of Piaget's Stages of Development?
Sensorimotor Stage.
In Piaget's theory, he says that infants of 0-2 years old, are starting to use their sense to identify the thing around them but not fully aware.
A infant was staring at a mirror before going around the mirror to see if anyone was behind it. What is this test called?
Self Recognition.
Where they test to see if a infant id able to identify themselves though the mirror.
Recently your child has been learning to stop asking for your help when taking baths. Do you find that as a positive sign of growth?
Yes, for some parents we recognize this as early signs of independence in a child who had always received assistance when bathing.
You scold your child when he broke a glass cup in the kitchen. Your child becomes frighten and now walks in the kitchen making sure to avoid glass. Is this a sign of self awareness?
Yes it is. After learning for their mistakes we can say that it was a learning experience but also a warning that he should be careful with glass.
About 80% of all mother's face postpartum depression.
Baby Blues.
Mother's of any race face this after a few week of birth. Maternal postpartum depression is characterized by feelings of low self-worth, disturbed sleep, poor apathy and appetite.
Babies tend to observe their surrounding and what their parents are doing. What do we call, when a baby takes in our actions?
Receptive.
Babies are able to do two things when their infants. Receptive, which is taking it all in, meaning your actions and expression, while Expressive is what babies put out for you, such as babbling and cooing.
A mother is stuck in a problem with her child. After discovering a smart phone her child had been constantly throwing crying fits when the phone is taken away. What should she do?
Any answer! As long as you can make the child understand.
we could have the phone taken away and have the child understand that its not always good to use a smart phone.
When do boys and girls understand the difference in their bodies?
Around the ages of 2-4 we have a clearer understanding of when a child recognize the difference in gender.
Issca and Ethan are twins but they have different hobbies. Ethan prefers playing soccer while Issca likes watching TV or reading. Issca's parents are worried about his activity level so they told him to play outside. Issca started playing with Ethan. Do you think it was a good thing for Issca?
Yes, it a good thing. Parents are worried about whether their child will grow up healthy and with strong bone as they reach puberty.
At what age do people grow quicker?
(2 answers)
Infants and Adolescence.
People grow up quicker when they are infants, but another spark in their growth happens at ages 14-16 called adolescence or what we call puberty with varies for boys and girls.
A baby is blabbing something to that sound like dog. What do we call this when we pronounce a word with a different language or dialogue.
Phoneme.
When interacting with babies, they make small sound at 6-12 months that sound like similar words when we interact.
A child witness his parents fight. The child grew up and now had a fight with her lover. What affect did her parents have on her as she grew up?
Temperament can happen in any child, and even so more when growing up as a child with different backgrounds. We could already see that her parents action had a huge impact on her development.
For good child development you need to have good physical development. Is this true?
Researchers believe that more physical develop at a young age can help with focus, stress, and also make a child happy. It also helps with brain development.
For females in puberty we say it Oestrogen. What is the name for males?
Testosterone
Is the name for when males go through puberty.
Zygote is completely implanted in the uterine wall.
12-14 days.
The egg begin to fertilized in fallopian tube and slowly move upwards and in approximately in 4-5 days enters Zygote. The zygote then begins to attach itself to the wall of the Uterine wall. This process takes about 2 weeks to be complete.
A baby was looking at his mother expression as he went down the stairs. He saw the shocked face of his mother and quietly laid down on his stomach not attempting to climb the stairs anymore. What did this baby interpret from his mother?
It was a bad thing to do and that his mother's expression was the reason he did not attempt it anymore.
"Me? Again? Why am I going first again?" said Tim
Tim is once again choose as IT for tag. He finds that being IT was to much work and slowly moved away from that group where he once played tag. He then start sitting at the tree while watching his friends play tag and was always staring there. He was invited many times but would usually say no to them. What sort of attachment do you think he has?
Ainsworth's Attachment, Ambivalent Attachment.
Tim show these set of actions, when he left but then returned. and every time he was offered to play he would reject it and only sometime accept it.
You take your child to a theme park to have fun. When walking around your child pulls you a candy apple stand ask for one. You give him the candy apple but your partner disapproves. He things your child is to heavy. Do you think cutting down your child's sweet habits it a good idea?
It depends. Some parents would like it if there child can not eat that many sweets but also some can allow this to happen. We use think of this as a decision type of thing to control our child's diet.
What is Development Psychology?
the study of our physicals, cognitive, social, and emotional changes through our whole life,
What is the full abbreviation of NBAS?
Needle Behavior Assessment Scale.
NBAS, helps parents get to know their brand new baby who has at birth a unique individual temperament and personality.
By _____ months, babies try talking and saying small words.
At around 12 months babies try say small words in communicating.
Two infants where cooing to each other. When a parent walked over and took one infant away the other one started crying and reached out his arms to also be pick up. You watch this all happen and pick of the infant that was crying. It finally start calming down. Do you think this is because the infant wanted attention or to be picked up?
More then one answer since it could be either.
What is Object Permanence?
Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or otherwise sensed, when as a infant.
Oedipus Complex.
in Freud's Theory, Oedipus Complex is when a child has develop a sort of attachment to their parents. Like loving one parent but hating the other.