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What is the Apgar scale?

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assess’s newborns on color, heart rate, reflex irritability, muscle tone, and breathing

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What is a good Apagar score for newborns?

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greater than or equal to 7

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What is a bad Apgar score for newborns?

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less than or equal to 3

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What is the least developed newborn sense?

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Vision

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How is newborns vision?

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see unclearly across a wide range of distances, can detect human faces

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What is the Neonatial Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS)?

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tests newborns reflexes, muscle tone, state changes, responsiveness to physical and social stimuli

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What to the NBAS scores show about a newborn?

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scores are used to recommend appropriate interventions and to guide parents in meeting baby’s needs

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What is the cephalocaudal trend?

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head grows faster than lower part of the body, has control over neck muscles when they are on their stomachs but not legs

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What is the proximodistal trend?

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grows from center of the body outward, arms and legs can grow faster than hands and feet

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What is the process of brain growth?

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cell death makes space for neural fibers and synapses, stimulation, synaptic pruning returns neurons to an uncomitted state to support future development

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What is marasmus?

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diet low in all essential nutrients

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What is Kwashiorkor?

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unbalanced diet very low in protein

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What is classical conditioning?

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Requires an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) to produce an unconditioned response (UCR)

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Example of classical conditioning of dog

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UCS: dog food
UCR: dog salivating
Neurtral stimulus: bell while dog eats the food
Conditioned stimulus: bell rings but now dog reacts
Conditioned response: dog hears bell, salivates, and connects bell with getting food

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What invented classical conditioning?

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Pavlov

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What is classical conditioning used for?

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cannot be used to teach someone something, the reaction is a biological response
ex: dog salivating

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What is operant conditioning?

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increase and decrease a behavior by adding a consequence

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Example of operant conditioning

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If a dog poops on a carpet, you can add a punisher to take stop it or reinforcer to keep it happening

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What is a reinforcer?

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Increases the occurrence of a response
Positive reinforcer: add something positive to keep it happening (dog treat)
Negative reinforcer: take something away to keep it happening (dogs leash)

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What is a punishment?

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removing a stimulus or presenting an unpleasant one to decrease the occurrence of the response
Positive punishment: adding something to stop behavior (yelling)
Negative punishment: take something away to stop behavior (carpet)

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What is habituation?

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gradual reduction of strength of a response due to repetitive stimulation

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What is novelty preference?

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an infant showing a new object that is familiar with another one
shows recent memory

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What is statical learning?

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ability to detect the flow of information by noticing patterns, finding answer to problem with data

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How does vision develop?

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At 2 months, focusing on objects and adults
At 4 months, adult like color vision

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When does binocular depth start
8 weeks, using both eyes to see something
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When does pictorial depth start?
3-4 months, seeing a 2D object that looks 3D
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What is pattern perception?
newborns prefer complex patterns
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What supports pattern perception?
increasing knowledge of objects and actions
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What is intermodal perception?
light, sound, tactile, odor, and taste information facilities both perception of the physical world and social and language processing
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What is differentiation theory?
infants actively search for invariant features of the environment in a constantly changing perceptual world
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What are Piaget's ideas about cognitive change?
children can learn from the world around them, learn from what they know and what they discover
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What are schemes?
organized ways of making sense of an experience, direct interaction with the environment
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Example of schemes
going to the petting zoo, petting and feeding using all senses to understand and learn: smell of farm, sunshine, goats running
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What is adaption?
building schemes through direct interaction with the environment building connections but doing actual experiences involves assimilation and accomadation
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What is assimilation?
making new information fit in with existing knowledge Ex: child knows a triangle but not a square and tries to figure it out
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What is accommodation?
creating new schemes or adjusting ones Ex: child has never seen a star before remodel brain space
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What are the key factors of categorizing?
exploring objects and expanding knowledge adult labelings of sets of objects
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What affects the structures of children's cognitive worlds?
social and cultural contexts
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What is under extension?
applying words too narrowly Ex: doggy is used only for the family dog
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What is over extension?
applying words too broadly Ex: use the word dog for cow and horse
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What are self conscious emotions?
feelings that increase or decrease self confidence
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What are examples of self conscious emotions?
guilt, shame, embarrassment, envy, pride
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What is the Structure of Temperament?
Thomas and Chess Model: -tests on temperament easy child 40% of sample difficult child 10% slow to warm up child 15%
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What evidence is found in a shy child?
increased heart rate higher cortisol concentration in saliva greater pupil dilation, rise in blood pressure, lower skin surface temp
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What is secure attachment?
infant uses parent as a secure base (60% of infants)
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What is insecure-avoidant attachment?
infant seems unresponsive to the parent, avoidant at reunion (15%)
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What is insecure-resistant attachment?
clinginess combined with angry, resistive behavior (10%)
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What is disorganized- disoriented attachment?
contradictory behaviors, reflecting the greatest insecurity (15%)
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What are allomothers?
non maternal caregivers who share responsibility for infants
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Does child care in infancy threaten attachment security and later adjustment?
might be a risk due to poor quality child care, long hours, and parental role over load
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What does fathers affection predict in children?
later cognitive, emotional, and social competence
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What factors promote fathers' involvement?
good relationship with mother, co parenting, physical proximity to child
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Between what ages does the brain increase to 90% and undergo reshaping and refining?
between ages of 2 and 6
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What makes children susceptible to disease?
poor diet with decreases immune system
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Disease contributes to malnutrition and hinders what?
widespread immunization
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What do unintentional injuries cause?
leading cause of childhood mortality in industrialized nations
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What are factors of childhood injuries?
poverty child care shortages teenage parenthood
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What is the most flexible means of mental representation?
Language thinking in words allows dealing with past, present, and future and combining concepts
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What was Piaget's thought about language?
he felt actions are represented mentally, which are then labeled in words make believe play helps
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What is dual presentation?
viewing a symbolic object as an object and a symbol
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What is conversation?
idea that certain physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when there outward appearance changes
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What is hierarchical classification?
organization of objects into classes and subclasses on the basis of similarities and differences
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What are the 3 principles from Piaget that influence teachers and classrooms?
1. Discovery learning involves opportunities for spontaneous interaction with the environment 2. Sensitivity to children's readiness to learn builds on children's current thinking, challenging their incorrect ways of viewing the world 3. Acceptance of individual differences means planning for activities for individual children and small groups
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What is private speech?
the child and social environment come together to make cognition in cultural adaptive ways talking in yourself
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How is private speech the foundation for all higher cognitive processes?
used more when tasks are appropriately challenging with age, internalized as silent, inner speech used more and over a longer period by children with learning problems
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What is Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?
unexpected death, usually during the night can't control neck muscles and might not be able to breathe
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What are environmental factors of SIDS?
Smoking or drugs Poverty Sleep on stomachs and wrapped warmly
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What is the best way for babies to sleep?
on their backs in light sleep clothing
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How does smell help infants?
sense of smell helps mothers and babies identify each other
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What is experience- expectant brain growth?
which depends on ordinary experiences
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What is experience- dependent brain growth?
additional growth as a result of specific learning experiences
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What is the A not B search error?
Searching for an object in the first hiding spot it was in after they saw it move somewhere else

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