Fetal Development, Sleep Patterns, and Infant Reflexes

1. Lecture Material Developmental Review

2. Chapter 4 During 90-95% of the day the fetus spends ______. But once the baby is born, they spend 85-90% of their time ______. Drowsing, Sleep.

3. Chapter 4 When the fetus is in this stage, the addition of myelination to their neurons is occurring. As well their cartilage starts to calcify to bone. Fetal Stage

4. Chapter 4 A spanish mother reads her favorite book to her baby while she is still pregnant. Once the baby is about 3 weeks old the father starts to read the same book to the newborn. The baby likes this. The mother then reads a new book to the newborn and the baby does not seem to like it as much. What is this an example of? Xenophobes

5. Chapter 4 While sitting at home one day Shelly heard a noise outside her window. It was a soft rhythmic knocking noise. When she looked out she saw a woodpecker, pecking at a tree. 30 minutes later she then saw it fly by her window, after forgetting it was there. What is this an example of? Sensory Adaptation

6. Chapter 4 Sam and her husband have a 5 week old baby. They both have been very tired because their child does not have a regular sleep schedule. They begin to worry there is something wrong with the child or their parenting because they cannot get their baby on a schedule. Is this a concern? No, newborns should have erratic sleep patterns until about 6 weeks of age. If they don’t, then that would be the concern.

7. Chapter 5 A nurse assesses a newborn who has a pink body but blueish limbs, a loud, good cry along with coughing. Although the newborn is not moving a lot, the pulse is fast. What is the Apgar score for this newborn? 8 - Healthy

8. Chapter 5 Despite the World Health Organization’s (WHO) indication that only ___ of births should be Cesarean sections, ___ of births in America are in fact C-sections. 15% and 30%

9. Chapter 5 My newborn is 7 weeks old and is getting evaluated for the first time by this test. This assessment will help me to understand the portrait of my childs neurological and psychological state. What is the assessment? Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale

10. Chapter 5 Which of the following is an implication of Harlow’s Monkey research? • The adoption rates decreased because the wire mothers proved if you aren’t a biological mother, you can’t mother. • Orphanages and institutions started to add cloth to the wire cribs they kept the babies in. • The way you are mothered, has a lot to do with how you will mother. • Developed Kangaroo care, where physicians will put preemies into Kangaroo pouches and let the mother Kangaroo take care of the baby.

11. Chapter 5 When the baby monkeys in Harlow’s studies were given the option of two mothers. One with wire and food, the other a cloth mother without food. The monkeys preferred time with the cloth mother, surprisingly and not the mother with food. This is associated with what term? Contact Comfort

12. Chapter 6 Bonus! Yawning is considered what kind of reflex? Why? Social. It is one of the only reflexes that appears due to a social interaction.

13. Chapter 6 Why is it imperative that most of these reflexes are innate and not learned, as well as appearing at birth? If we had to learn these behaviors from birth, we would die before we learned them.

14. Chapter 6 3 month old Daisy feels a shiver from her tail to head on her spine and immediately raises her head. Daisy’s mom is surprised because Daisy has not been able to hold her head up on her own since birth. What is this? Perez Reflex

15. Chapter 6 Tommy’s mom holds him over the floor and he starts to reflexively walk. 4 months later when he is 7 months old he loses this ability to ‘walk’ when his mother holds him over the floor. Tommy begins to walk at 13 months. This is? Reflex/Behavior Gap

16. Chapter 6 Newborn Humans get their depth perception from birth in order to see their surroundings better because this is how they learn and grow. True/False. Why? False. Newborns get their depth perception when they need it. Aka 1 month after they start crawling.

17. Chapter 6 In the visual cliff studies, babies using their mother as a social reference were more likely to cross over the cliff when the mom was ______________? Making a happy/encouraging face

18. Chapter 7 Laura was 2 ½ years old when she had an accident in public. Her mother thought it was quite funny. 8 years later Laura’s mother asked Laura if she remembered this incident. Laura could not on her own remember this incident because of what? Infantile Amnesia

19. Chapter 7 10 month old Curtis received a handful of goldfish and he begins to throw them across the room. His mother first started to laugh, so Curtis continued this behavior. What Sensorimotor substage is this? Secondary Circular Reaction

20. Chapter 7 Brian is 10 months old and starts playing a game with his mother. She hides a toy truck under a blanket and he finds it. She does this a few times. On the 4th time, his mother hides it behind her back. Brian looks for it under the blanket. This is an example of what kind of object permanence? Transition to object permanence A-not-B Error

21. Chapter 7 Arthur has 4 different toys. 3 of them are toy race cars. The 4th one is a toy firetruck. Arthur spends more time looking at the firetruck because of what categorization of thought? Perceptual

22. Chapter 7 All the following are examples of different kinds of Gesturing EXCEPT: • Conventional Social Gestures • Natural Symbolic Gesturing • Representational Gestures • Pre-Linguistic Gesturing *Do you need us to go over the different kinds?

23. Chapter 7 **Chapter 7 is pretty big with a lot of important information! If we have not covered a topic that you want us to review, please ask questions now before we go into Book Material**

24. Book Material Developmental Review

25. Chapter 4 This Prenatal Assessment helps to diagnosis birth defects and disorders and can be performed as early as 10 to 12 weeks of gestation. The results are highly accurate. Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS)

26. Chapter 5 The _______rate of mothers _____ at the turn of the 20th Century. Mortality, decreased

27. Chapter 5 What are the 4 factors that increase the likelihood of have a low-weight baby • Demographic & SES factors • Medical factors pre-dating pregnancy • Prenatal behavioral and environmental factors • Medical conditions associated with the pregnancy

28. Chapter 6 Screening test given to children 1 month to 6 years old to determine whether they are developing normally. What does this test measure? Denver Developmental Screening Test Gross motor skills, fine motor skills, language development, personality and social development

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