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| What are the three basic principles of physical growth? |
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-Directionalty
-Heterchonchity
-Canalization |
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Cephalocaudal growing > Growing from head to toe (infant)
Proximodistal growing > Growing from near to far |
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| Different rates of growth for different bodily systems |
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| Return to expected path after moderate disruptions |
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| If you place your fingers in a baby's hand, they'll grab it. Occurs from birth to 5 months. |
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| Stroke the corner of the mouth lightly and the tongue will follow. Occurs from about 5-6 months. |
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| Weird stretching. Occurs from birth to about 6 months. |
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| Baby extends and reaches its arms. From birth to about 5-7 months. |
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| Baby Extends its toes from birth to about a year |
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| What are some of the changes that account for the decline in newborn reflexes? |
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| Baby is getting too big to hold its weight? |
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| How can the dynamic systems approach be used to understand motor development? |
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| Complex motor skills require the assembling and reassembling of multiple processes involving motivation, elements of the nervous system that regulate posture and balance, increased bone and muscle strengh changes in the body. How EVERYTHING intereacts. |
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| Puberty Development. Five stages. Provides consistency for research. |
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| Primary Sexual Characteristics |
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| Penis, Balls, Vag, Uterus, Ovaries |
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| Secondary Sexual Characteristics |
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| How are learning and memory different? |
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| Information that is store in the learning process is imortant for the memory process. Learning his how you acquire new information about the world and memory is how you store that information over time. |
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| You learn associations between consistently paired stimuli. You learn positive associations quicker than negative ones. |
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| Learning is through positive and negative reinforcement and punishment |
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| Emphasizes that associations are formed because of some events expressed within a particular language, co-occur statistically predictable order. In other words, infants and young children can learn from the many kinds of regularities that they experience in their world. It's also about extracting abnormalities. Association and frequency occurs. |
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| The process of learning improved skills of perception. |
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| Role of Rewards in Learning |
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| An infant will learn to repeat behaviors that lead to rewards and avoid behaviors that will fail to produce rewards or punishment. Rewards can be variable: nourishment, changed contact, attention, smiles, stimulation, motion, etc. |
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| Detecting the ability to discriminate between stimuli. It is measured by the time they take to habituate and distinguish between two stimuli. |
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| Consistent, unbroken tracking focus by the eyes which serves to maintain focus on a moving object. |
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| Rapid eye movement to inspect an object or view a stiumlus in the periphery of the visual target. |
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| The capacity of an excited neuron to reduce the activity of its neighbors. Lateral inhibition sharpens the spatial profile of excitation in response to a localized stimulus,. |
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| The tendncey for younger infants than 2 months to focus on external features of a complex stimulus. Older infants focus on the internal features. |
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| The integration of information gathered form two or more stimuli of very different sensory modes. Using more than one of your five senses together. Experiments that display this are the babies watching puppets dance. |
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| A large sheet of glass bisected by wood. Used to test depth perception. |
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| Children come equipped with domain specific theories, which allow them to break into laerning within that domain. FOr example, young infants appear to be sensitive to some predictable regulatities in the movement and interactions of objects. |
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| The notion that amind may, at least in part, be composed of serperate innate structures, which have established evolutionary developed functional purposes. |
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| Evidence that there is something special about the perception of faces |
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-Behavioral Evidence: Inversion effects: more disruptive for faces(Margaret THatcher). Configural processing: better at whole than parts.
-Clinical Evidence: Prosopagnosia: inability to recognize faces. Anti- Inability to recognize words and objects. |
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