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Ch3 Flashcards

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Alert inactivity

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State in which a baby is calm with eyes open and attentive and the baby seems to be deliberately inspecting the environment

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Walking activity

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State in which the babies eyes are open but seem unfocused and the arms or legs move in burst of uncoordinated motion

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Crying

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State in which a baby cries vigorously usually companies by agitated but Uncoordinated movement

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Sleeping

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State in which a baby alternate from being still and breathing regularly to moving gently and breeding you regularly and in which the eyes are closed throughout

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Basic cry

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Cry that start softly and gradually becomes more intense often heard when babies are hungry or tired

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Mad cry

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More intense version a basic cry

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pain cry

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Cry that begins with the sun long burst followed by a long pause and gasping

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Rapid eye movement REM sleep

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Sleep in which a person’s eyes dart rapidly beneath eyelids

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Regular sleep

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Sleep in which heart rate breathing and brain activity our steady

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Sudden infant death syndrome

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Situation in which a healthy baby dies suddenly for no apparent reason

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Neuron

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Basic cellular unit of the brain and nervous system that specializes in receiving and transmitting information

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Cell body

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Center of the neuron that keeps the neuron alive

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Dendrite

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And of the neuron that receives information it looks like a tree with many branches

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Axon

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Tubelike structure that emerges from the cell body and transmits information to other neurons

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Terminal buttons

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Small knobs at the end of the axon that release neurotransmitters

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Neurotransmitters

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Chemicals released by the terminal buttons that allowed neurons to communicate with each other

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17
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Hemispheres

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Right and left half of the cortex

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Corpus callosum

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Big bundle of neurons that connect the two hemispheres

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Frontal cortex

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Brain region that regulates personality and goal direction behavior

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Neural plate

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Flat group of cells present and prenatal development that become the brain and spinal cord

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Myelin

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Fatty sheath that wraps around the neurons to permit them to transmit information more rapidly

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Synaptic pruning

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Gradual reduction in the number of synapse beginning in the infancy and continuing until adolescence

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Electroencephalogram

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Pattern of brain waves recorded from electrodes that are placed on the scalp

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging

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Method of studying brain activity by using magnetic fields to track blood flow in the brain

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Motor skills

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Coordinated movements of the muscles and Limbs

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Locomote

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To move around in the world

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Fine motor skills

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Motor skills associated with grasping holding and manipulating objects

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Toddling

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Early unsteady form of walking done by infants

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Dynamic systems theory

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Theory that reviews motor development as involving many distinct skills organize and reorganize overtime to meet specific needs

30
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Differentiation

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Distinguishing and mastering individual motions

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Integration

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Combining intricate motions in proper sequence into a coherent working whole

32
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Pincer grasp

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Occurs when the thumb is used in opposition to fingers

33
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Ulnar grasp

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And almost claw like grasp that permits very little manipulation

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Perception

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Processes by which the brain receives selects modifies and organizes incoming nerve impulses that are a result of physical stimulation

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Visual acuity

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Smallest pattern that one can distinguish reliably

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Cones

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Specialized neurons in the back of the eye that sense color

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Visual cliff

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Glass covered platform that appears to have a shallow side and Deep side used to study infant depth perception

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Kinetic cues

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When motion is used to estimate depth

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Visual expansion

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An object moves closer it feels an even greater proportion of the retina

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Motion parallax

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Nearby moving objects move across our visual field faster than those at a distance

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Retinal disparity

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Way to inferred that based on differences in the retinal images in the left and right eyes

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Intersensory redundancy

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Infant sensory systems are attuned to information presented stimulus lead to different sensory modes

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Schemes

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According to piaget mental structures that organize information and regulate behavior

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Assimilation

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Taking in information that is compatible with one already knows

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Accommodation

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Changing existing knowledge based on new knowledge

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Equilibration

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A process by which children reorganize their schemes to return to a state of equilibrium when disequilibrium occurs

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Sensorimotor period

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First of piagets four stages of cognitive development which lasts from birth to approximately two years

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Object permanence

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Object still exist independently even when we can’t see them

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Core knowledge hypothesis

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Infants are born with rudimentary knowledge of the world which is elaborated based on experiences

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Attention

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Processes that determine which information will be processed further by an individual

51
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Orientating response

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Individual fix his eyes on a strong or unfamiliar stimulus and changes in heart rate and brainwave activity occur

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Habitation

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Becoming unresponsive to stimulus that is presented repeatedly

53
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Classical conditioning

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A form of learning that involves pairing a neural stimulus and response originally produced by another

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Cooing

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Early vowel like sounds that babies produce

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Babbling

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Speech like sounds that consist of vowel consonant combinations

56
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Fast mapping

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Fact that children make connections between new words and referents so quickly that they can’t be considering all possible meanings

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Reflexes

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Unlearned responses triggered by specific stimulation

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