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Developmental Psychology - Infancy Part 2
This deck covers key concepts in developmental psychology related to infancy, focusing on neural development, reflexes, sensory development, and evolutionary perspectives.
Pruning of cells which is a way to calibrate the developing brain to the local environment and help it work more efficiently, beings during the prenatal period and continues after birth
Cell Death
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Term
Definition
Pruning of cells which is a way to calibrate the developing brain to the local environment and help it work more efficiently, beings during the prenatal period and continues after birth
Cell Death
Enables signals to travel faster and more smoothly by coating the neural pathways with myelin
Myelination
Biological process and environmental conditions influences development, the brain is
Neuroconstructivist View
Automatic, innate response to stimulation which are controlled by the lower brain centers that govern involuntary processes
Reflex Behavior
Includes sucking, rooting, and the Moro reflex are related to instinctive needs for survival and protection or may support the early connection to the caregiver
Primitive reflexes
Reactions to changes in position or balance
Postural Reflexes
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Pruning of cells which is a way to calibrate the developing brain to the local environment and help it work more efficiently, beings during the prenatal period and continues after birth | Cell Death |
Enables signals to travel faster and more smoothly by coating the neural pathways with myelin | Myelination |
Biological process and environmental conditions influences development, the brain is | Neuroconstructivist View |
Automatic, innate response to stimulation which are controlled by the lower brain centers that govern involuntary processes | Reflex Behavior |
Includes sucking, rooting, and the Moro reflex are related to instinctive needs for survival and protection or may support the early connection to the caregiver | Primitive reflexes |
Reactions to changes in position or balance | Postural Reflexes |
Resemble voluntary movements that do not appear until months after the reflexes have disappeared | Locomotor Reflex |
Early Reflexes Disappear during | first 6-12 months |
Extend legs, arms, and fingers, arches back, draws back head | Moro |
Make strong fist | Darwinian (grasping) |
Fencer Position | Tonic Neck |
Mouth opens, eyes close, neck flexes, head tilts forward | Babkin |
Toes fan out; foot twist in | Babinski |
Head turns, mouth opens, sucking begins | Rooting |
Steplike motions | Walking |
Swimming movements | Swimming |
Sense of smell and taste begin to develop | in the womb |
Is the first sense to develop, the most mature sensory system for the first several months | Touch |
Develops rapidly after birth | Auditory Discrimination |
Infant’s brain responds preferentially to speech | at 4 months |
Is the least developed sense at birth | Vision |
The use of both eyes to focus | Binocular Vision |
Infants like attractive faces T or F? | True |
Sleep restores, replenishes, and rebuilds our brains and bodies T or F? | True |
All animals sleep and this sleep is necessary for survival (to protect themselves at night) | Evolutionary Perspective |