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| toes go out not curl when you run finger up foot |
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| Moro, Darwinian, Tonic Neck, Babkin, Babinski, Rooting, Walking, Swimming |
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| moldability of the brain through experience. Better when one is young. |
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| physical skills that involve the large muscles |
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| physical skills hat involve the small muscles and eye-hand coordination |
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| Denver Developmental Screening Test |
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| Screening test given to children 1 month to 6 years old to determine whether they are developing normally. Tests gross and fine motor skills, language, personality and social development, etc. |
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| increasingly compels combination of skills which permit a wider or more precise range of movement and more control of the environment |
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| Method of childbirth that seeks to prevent pain by eliminating the mother's fear through education about the physiology of reproduction and training in breathing and relaxation during delivery |
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| method of childbirth that uses instruction, breathing exercises, and social support to induce controlled physical responses to uterine contractions and reduce fear and pain. |
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| fuzzy prenatal hair that has not yet fallen off the neonate |
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| soft spots--places where the bones have not yet grown together on the skull |
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| cheesy varnish--an oily protection against infection that dries within the first few days. |
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| appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration. Standard measurement of a newborn's condition. |
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| Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale |
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| Neurological and behavioral test to measure neonate's responses to the environment |
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| process of coating neurons with a fatty substance that enables faster communication between cells. |
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| 3 approaches to cognitive develpment |
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behaviorist approach--concerned with the basic mechanics of learning
psychometric--seeks to measure the quantity of intelligence a person possesses
piagetian--describes qualitative stages in cognitive functioning. e.g. principle of conservation |
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| behavior that is goal-oriented and adaptive to circumstances and conditions of life |
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| Bayley Scales of Infant Developement |
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| Standardized test of infant's mental motor and behavioral development. |
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| Piaget's Sensorimotor Stage |
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| the first stage in cognitive development, during which infants learn through senses and motor activity |
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| Piaget's term fro processes by which an infant learns to reproduce desired occurrences originally discovered by chance. |
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| representational abiblity |
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| Piaget's term fro capacity to store mental images or symbols of objects and experiences |
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| Piaget's term for reproduction of an observed behavior after the passage of time |
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| Piaget's term for the understanding that a person or object still exists when out of sight |
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| Tendency for 8-12 mo-old infants to serach for a hidden object in a place where they previously found it, rather than in the place where they most recently saw it being hidden. |
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| simple type of learning in which familiarity with a stimulus reduces, slows, or stops a response |
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| increase in responsiveness after presentation of a new stimulus |
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| intentional and conscious memory, generally of facts, names, and events |
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| unconscious recall, generally of habits and skills; sometimes called procedural memory |
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| short-term storage of information being actively processed |
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| theory that humans have an inborn capacity for language acquisition |
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| language acquisition device (LAD) |
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| In Chomsky's terminology, an inborn mechanism that enable children to infer linguistic rules from the language they hear. |
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| subjective reactions to experience that are associated with physiological and behavioral changes |
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| emotions, such as embarrassment, empathy, and envy, that depend on self-awareness |
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| realization that one's existence and functioning are separate from those of other people and things |
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| emotions such as pride, shame, and guild, which depend on both self-awareness and knowledge of socially accpted standards of behavior |
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| ability to understand that other people have mental states and to gauge their feelings and intentions. |
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| ability to put oneself in another person's place and feel what the other person feels |
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| Characteristic disposition, or style of approaching and reacting to situations |
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