Physical Development
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)?
The perspective on motor development that seeks to explain how motor behaviors are assembled for perceiving and acting.
What is Dynamics Systems Theory?
The process of applying an existing capability without modification to various situations.
What is assimilation?
The ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words and rules.
What is infinite generativity?
Sensation occurs when information interacts with these sensory receptors.
What are eyes, ears, tongue, nostrils, and skin?
This is the percentage of the brain weight at birth compared to the adult brain.
What is 25%?
These are built-in reactions to stimuli that govern newborn’s movements.
What are reflexes?
The process of modifying an existing strategy or skill to meet a new demand of the environment.
What is accommodation?
In this type of speech, children's early use of syntax resembles a telegram because many function words are omitted.
What is telegraphic speech?
This is a way newborns indicate that they like or dislike a scent
What is using their facial expressions?
This is the sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top—the head---with physical growth and differentiation of features gradually working their way down from top to bottom.
What is the Cephalocaudal pattern?
Babies can not sit up independently until they are this age.
What is 6 to 7 months?
This is the imitation of observed behavior after time has elapsed, which indicates an infant's ability to store a representation of the behavior in memory.
What is the deferred imitation?
At this age, infants change from universal linguist to language-specific listener.
What is 7-11 months?
A recent fMRI study confirmed that the fetus can hear at this number of weeks into the prenatal period by assessing fetal brain response to auditory stimuli.
What is 33-34 weeks?
The length of the average newborn.
What is 20 inches?
This occurs in response to a sudden, intense noise or movement.
What is Moro reflex?
The Piagetian term for understanding that objects and events continue to exist, even when they cannot directly be seen, heard, or touched.
What is the object permanence?
This is known as speech-language spoken in a higher pitch than normal with simple words and sentences
What is child-directed speech?
What is the interplay between perception and action?
Children who do most of their sleeping at night during infancy seem to do this at age 4.
What is be engaged in a higher level of executive function?
The average toddler falls this many times an hour.
What is 15 times?
This Piaget’s stage lasts from birth to about 2 years of age; during this stage, infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with motoric actions.
What is sensorimotor stage?
This is the biological endowment enabling the child to detect the features and rules of language, including phonology, syntax, and semantics.
What is Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?
This is the newborn’s vision on the Snellen eye examination chart.
What is 20/600?