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immunization in a person

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A process by which a person becomes protected against a disease through vaccination

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What are the leading causes of accidental children death?

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Drowning(pool, bath tub) and poisoning(cleaning products,medicine)

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What is are some motor, cognitive & socio-emotional behaviors that would lead a child to death:

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Climbing onto things, electric outlet, curiosity
Motor: Running into the street
Cognitive:
Socio-emotional:

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what are some behaviors a caregiver can lead to a child death:

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Smoking, drinking, unsafe driving, Teratogens, not watching child, mental health disorder

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why is eating with your parents so important?

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leads to communication and spending time with them

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what can happen if you don’t eat dinner with your parents 5x a week?

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Higher rates of smoking, drug use, fighting, sex

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how does peer pressure influence you?

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can instigate risk taking behavior, its higher when teenager and young adult.
The environment influenced by peers is much higher than parents influence

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why is suicidal rates much higher for a male?

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hides depressive thoughts, doesn’t seek out help. Method of suicide more effective

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crime is usually committed by

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young males

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_% of adults age 65-70 have disabilities.

80 & older much higher percentage

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17%

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chronic disorder is referred to as

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slow onset disease, long duration !

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how does socio-economic differences play a role in adult health?

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older poorer adults are 3x more likely to have chronic disorder then non poor adult

economic status, education, occupation, status relates to SES(Social Economic Status)

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Osteoporosis involves

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extensive bone tissue loss, related to calcium deficiency

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Gender differences on osteoporosis:

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80% of women
affects 2/3 women over 60
common in white, thin, small females

Prevention: diet, weight, lifting!

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Dementia is a ?

Symptom?

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is a neurological disorder

symptom is deterioration of mental function

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Alzheimers is a type of

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dementia

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Alzheimers disease is

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a progressive, irreversible brain disorder with gradual deterioration of memory, reasoning, language and physical function

Currently no cure

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Alzheimers Strats to produce less of

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Acetycholine(ACH) = deficiency

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Parkinsons disease

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muscle tremors, slow down movement

chronic and progressive triggered by loss of dopamine production in brain NO CURE

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famous people who had Parkinson’s disease

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Muhammad ali, Michael j fox

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BMI is

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body mass index includes sex, age height,

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consequences of obesity

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increase Childs risk in medical problem, low self esteem, bullying

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Treatment of obesity

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diet, exercise, intervention & behavior modification thru numerous programs

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how many adolescents ages 12-19 in 2012 were over weight
21%
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how many American over the age of 15 are over weight ?
60%
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what percentage of children without parents become over weight ?
10%
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what's the percentage of children with one parent being overweight ?
40%
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Eating disorders include
anorexia nervosa
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anorexia nervosa causes
- weight less than 85% of mass of an average person | - begins in teenage years, white middle/ upper class
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Bulimia is a disorder that involves
binging and purging food, fear of becoming over weigh, depression, anxiety, Usually normal weight, 70% range of people
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what does motor development- Reflex carry?
genetically carried survival mechanism, autonomic
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Reflex in newborns allows them to:
new borns to respond adaptively to environment before opportunity to learn - adapt to environment before having the opportunity to learn
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reflexes in new born disappears at___ | while some last though out life
2-4mths
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gross motor skill in childhood include:
improved walking, running, jumping, climbing learn organized sport skills
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when are gross motor skills in adolescence & adult hood at its peak? and When do they decline?
peak physical performance blow 19-26, most biological functions decline after 30
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what are Fine Motor Skils:
are more finely tuned movement
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FMS- infancy
size, shape of object, experience matter
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FMS-Childhood & adolescence
age 10-12 | girls outperform boys, increase myelination CNS improves FMS
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FMS-adulthood
some decline in middle to late adulthood as dexterity decrease( slow movement)
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pathological conditions of FMS result in
may result in weakness/ paralysis of hands
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T or F is Handedness a genetic inheritance
T
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right handed pep dominate __%
90% of all culture
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right handedness preference baggings in
in the womb, sucking of thumb in womb
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___% of right handed plp primarily process speech _____
95% process speech in the left hemisphere of brain
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___% of lefties process in the ____ hemisphere, while __% in both
50% , in the left hemisphere | 25% in both
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left handed are more likely to:
have reading problems | visual skills, more common among mathematicians, artist, musicians, architects
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what is this called when Infants assemble motor skills for perceiving and acting. example:such as fingers coordination
Dynamic system view in infants
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what's Piagets theory of cognitive development?
process which occurs due to biological maturation and environmental experience.
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Piagets theory stated that there was a driving force between:
intellectual development is biological development
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Name the four states of Piagets theory:
1) Sensorimotor: Birth to 18–24 months old 2) Formal operational: Adolescence to adulthood 3) Concrete operational: 7 to 11 years old 4) Preoperational: 2 to 7 years old
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Scheme is defined as
a idea/ strategy | actions or mental presentations that organize knowledge
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what characterizes physical activities in infancy?
behavioral schemes
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what are cognitive activities developed in children?
problem solving | mental scheme
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define assimilation:
incorporate new information or experience into existing knowledge schemes into new culture, new info, absorb into life
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Accommodation is
adjusting to existing scheme(idea) to take in new information and experience -have to change scheme(idea)
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Disequilibrium is defined as
cognitive conflict child faces, confusion, disorder,puzzle
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stages of development in Piagets theory unifies ?
unifies experience with biology to explain cognitive
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motivation in a child is eternal search for
equilibrium
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Stage one in Piagets theory
- birth-2yrs | - infants construct understand of world by coordinating sensory experience w/ motor skills; sensory motor skill
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object permanence is defined as
understanding that an object continues to exist even when they cant see it. Do not use logic
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piagets stage 2 pre-operatial:
- ages 2 to 7 - children begin to represent world with words, images, drawings - not ready to preform operations
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sub-stage --symbolic function
- ages2 to 4 | - Symbolic child gains ability to mentally represent an object that's not present
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animism is
belief that animated objects have life like qualities
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egocentric | when does it end ?
inability to distinguish b/w ones own perspective and that of someone else (3 mountain task) age 7
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intuitive thought- substage is
children begin using primitive reasoning; want to know answer to all sorts of Questions -Ages 4-7
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centration is
focusing attention on one characteristic to exclusion of all others Ex: doctors wear white coats
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conservation is
an object or substance, amount stay the same regardless of changing cup - this is lacking in pre-reational stage
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concrete operational stage
is the 3rd stage - ages7 7 to 11 - logical reasoning, replaces intuitive reasoning if applied to specific, concrete example
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seriation is
operation that involves ordering stimulations along qualitative dimension (doll example, confuse in height)
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Egocentrism is
inability to distinguish b/w ones perspective and that of someone else
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conservation is a
test to see if the child has seen the difference: - object/substance stays the same - lacking in pre-operational stage
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example of conservation:
child understands one person can be father, brother and son
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formal operational stage:
- 4th stage - 11yrs-adult - abstract, idealistic, logical thinking - solve problems by trial and error
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in stage 4 of piagets theory someone has
hypothetical thinking- deductive reasoning , problem solving skills
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contribution is a field in childrena
cognitive development
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what's are some criticisms in piagets theory
some abilities come earlier than he believed, training, education, culture can influence development Enviromental factors play a huge role
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Vygostky Theory of cognitive develpmentt states
is advanced though social interactions with more skilled adults/peers
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Vygostky was a
Russian psychologist in 1930s | -empasis on culture & Social interactions guide development in children
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Zone of proximal development is
tasks are too difficult for children to master alone but can be done with guidance
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Scaffolding is a stage of
changing level of support to lift Childs correct performance level

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