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| sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the head, working top to bottom |
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| growth starts at center and moves toward the extremities |
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| What percentage of body weight does newborn lose 1st day of life? |
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| How much do they gain a week? |
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| What does the electroencaphalogram(EEG) measure? |
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| brain electrical activity |
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| voluntary movement, thinking, personality, emotion, memory, purpose |
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| hearing, language, processing and memory |
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| registering spatial location, maintaining attention, motor control |
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| fore-brain is divided into what four lobes |
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| frontal, occipital, temporal, parietal |
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| specialization of function in one hemisphere or the other |
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| left vs. right hemisphere |
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left: grammar
right: humor |
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| layer of fat cells that encase axons |
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| chemicals released into synapses, tiny gaps between neuron fibers |
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| process of encasing axons with fat cells |
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| where high level thinking occurs |
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| spend half of sleep in this stage |
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| occurs when infant stops breathing usually during night and die without apparent cause |
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| caused by severe protein-calorie deficiency and results in a wasting away of body tissue |
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| caused by severe deficiency in protein in which child abdomen and feet become swollen with water |
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| The Dynamics Systems View |
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| In order for infants to develop motor skills, infants must be motivated to act and use their perceptions |
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| occurs when side of mouth is touch, infant turn head that way |
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| NB suck on object that is put into mouth |
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| response to sudden intense noise.. arch back and throw head back |
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| something touches infant palm |
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| occurs when info interacts with sensory receptors: eyes, ears, tongue, nose, skin |
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| interpretation of what is sensed |
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| perception functions to bring organisms in contact with the environment and to increase adaptation |
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| if infants dont develop perceptual constancy |
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| each time they see object at different difference or orientation, they will perceive as different object |
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| object remains same even when you move toward or away from it |
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| remains same shape even if orientation changes |
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| last 2 months of pregnancy |
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