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Infant Development
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is temperament? | inborn style of reacting to the environment |
| What is egocentric? | Seeing things from your own point of view |
| What age is an infant? | birth to 12 months |
| Sensorimotor | Stage of cognitive development from birth to 2 years old |
| Babinski | toes fan out when the bottom of the foot is stroked |
| Moro | also known as startle reflex |
| Stepping | reflex where a baby makes a walking motion when held up with its feed touching a surface |
| Swimming | hold a baby horizontally and it will move its arms and legs in a swimming motion |
| Erik Erikson | child development theorist who said that bonding is necessary for development of good self-esteem. |
| trust or mistrust | this is based on the quality of a baby's early experiences with caregivers and the environment |
| fontanel | soft spots on a baby's head |
| Heredity | traits that you are born with |
| Environment | people, places, experiences, and surroundings |
| Rooting | turn toward a touch on the baby's cheek or lips |
| Bonding | forming a strong attachment to and preference for a primary caregiver |
| nurture | to provide love, support, and encouragement |
| Grasping | automatically closing the hand when the palm is touched |
| separation distress | when a baby shows unhappiness or is upset when a primary caregiver leaves |
| stranger anxiety | fear of unfamiliar people, usually expressed by crying |
| Easy temperament | babies that adjust quickly to changes in their routines |
| Slow to warm up | children who need more time to adjust to new people and new situations |
| Difficult | children who do not adjust well to changes in routines |
| Attachment behavior | infant will show signs of pleasure when the caregiver appears and distress when the caregiver leaves |
| Object permanance | understanding that an object continues to exist even when it is out of sight |
| Birth to one month | baby practices inborn reflexes and does not understand itself as a separate person |
| one to four months | baby combines 2 or more reflexes and develops hand to mouth coordination |
| four to eight months | baby acts intentionally to produce results and improves eye-hand coordination |
| eight to twelve months | begins to solve problemsand finds partially hidden objects; imitates others |
| twelve to eighteen months | finds hidden objects; explores and experiments, and understands that objects exist independently |
| eighteen to twenty-four months | solves problems by thinking through sequences; can think using symbols; begins imaginative thinking |
| Perceptual motor skills | skills that require the coordination of vision, intellect, and movement |
| Eye-hand coordination | the ability to move the hands and fingers precisely in relation to what is seen |
| Reflexes | inborn, instinctive, involuntary reactions to a stimulus, such as noise or touch |
| Moro | throwing out the arms and legs in response to a loud sound or sudden movement |
| vocalizations | sounds that imitate adult language |
| discomfort, distress, happiness | emotions that infants experience |
| responsive, consistent, reliable care | necessary for a baby's emotional development in order to develop trust in others and int their environment |
| marasmus | condition in which babies fail to thrive that can be caused by lack of social and emtional interaction or physical problems or poor nutrition |
Created by:
PamMcIntyre
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