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First 2 years Biosocial Development. What is Biosocial Development?. Body Brain Senses Good health. How does the body change in the first 2 years?. 2 year old. 1 year old. How much does the child grow?. 2X birth weight by 4 months 3X birth weight by age 1
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What is Biosocial Development? • Body • Brain • Senses • Good health
How does the body change in the first 2 years? 2 year old 1 year old
How much does the child grow? • 2X birth weight by 4 months • 3X birth weight by age 1 • 4X birth weight by age 2
What is Head sparing? • If starving, the body stops growing, but not the brain • The brain is the last part of the body to be damaged by malnutrition Intrauterine Growth Restriction
Sleep • Good sleep = good health • Newborns sleep 15 – 17 hours • REM sleep • Rapid eye movement • Flickering of closed eyes • Rapid brain waves • Dreaming • ½ of newborn sleep is REM sleep • Declines with age
Do you remember? • How much does a child grow by age two? • What is head sparing? • What is REM sleep? • How does REM sleep relate to dreaming and age?
What are Neurons? • Basic nerve cell in central nervous system • Axons • Dendrites • Synapses • Intersection on neurons (axons & dendrites) • Neurotransmitters • Chemical messengers • Carry information from one neuron to another • Transient Exuberance & Pruning • Transient Exuberance – Increases dendrites • Pruning – Misconnected dendrites atrophy and die
What does the brain stem do? • Automatic responses • Heartbeat • Breathing • Temperature
What does the brain cortex do? • Outer layer of the brain • Activities • Thinking • Feeling • Sensing • Visual • Auditory • Sensory • Motor
What does the prefrontal cortex do? • Last to develop • Self-control of impulses • Reasoning • Analysis • Ethics • Plans • Anticipates
Do you remember? • What are neurons? • What are synapses? • What do neurotransmitters do? • What does the brain stem do? • What does the brain cortex do? • What does the prefrontal cortex do?
Experience • Expectant Experience • All infants • The brain naturally expects to learn some things • E.g. learning language • Dependent Experience • Culture based • E.g. Which language is learned
What is Shaken baby syndrome? • Life threatening • Blood vessels rupture in the brain • Neural connections beak • “Abusive Head Trauma”
Sensation-Perception-Cognition • Sensation • Detects stimulus • Perception • Processes the stimulus • Based on experience • This is a rattlesnake • Cognition (Thinking) • Gives meaning to the stimulus • Dangerous! – move away
What Motor skills develop? • Gross motor skills • Large muscles • E.g. walking • Muscle strength • Brain maturation (Motor cortex) • Practice • Fine motor skills • Small muscles • E.g writing
Do you remember? • What is expectant and dependent experience? • What is the “shaken baby syndrome”? • What is the difference between sensation, perception, and cognition? • What are examples of gross and fine motor skills?
Vision • Least developed at birth
Immunization (Vaccinations) • Creates antibodies for specific contagious diseases by stimulating the immune system. • The flu • Chicken pox • Polio • DPT • Diphtheria • Tetanus • Pertussis • MMR • Mumps • Measles • Rubella • Risk of disease is much greater than risk from immunization
Breast feeding • Breast is best • Colostrum • High calorie fluid – first 3 days • Milk • Rich in iron & vitamins • Provides antibodies (if mother has antibodies) • Decreases risk of allergies, asthma, and stomach aches • Decreases risk of obesity and heart disease in adulthood (many other factors involved)
Do you remember? • What is the least developed sense at birth? • What are some of the basic immunizations a child should receive? • How do the risks from disease relate to the risks from immunization? • What is the difference between colostrum and milk?