Newborn - answer-child under 28 days old
Newborns sleep patterns - answer-16-18 hours of sleep, 1-2 hours awake, rem immediately, 50% nrem & 50% rem, 50 min cycles
Nonrem sleep - answer-non-rapid eye movement;when the baby is nearly motionless, non-rem sleep increases as the infant gets older...
PORTAGE LEARNING DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
MODULE 3
Newborn - answer-child under 28 days old
Newborns sleep patterns - answer-16-18 hours of sleep, 1-2 hours awake, rem immediately, 50% nrem
& 50% rem, 50 min cycles
Nonrem sleep - answer-non-rapid eye movement;when the baby is nearly motionless, non-rem sleep
increases as the infant gets older.
Rem sleep - answer-is characterized by uneven breathing, makes up roughly half of an infant's daily
sleep pattern. Infants begin their sleep cycle in rem sleep
5 s's of soothing a crying infant - answer-swaddling, side/stomach position in parent's arms, swinging,
shushing sounds, sucking
Infant growth patterns - answer-cephalocaudal and proximodistal
Cephalocaudal - answer-growth starts at the top with the head to the tail
Proximodistal - answer-"inside-to-outside rule", growth starts in the center and moves far away; growth
will begin in the trunk area and then move to the limbs
Sensormotor stage - answer-according to piaget, the stage during which infants know the world mostly
in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities (birth-2)
Scheme - answer-an organized way of making sense of experience
Assimilation - answer-new information is absorbed into an existing schema.
Accommodation - answer-schemas are changed to make sense of incoming information
Infant relexes - answer-rooting(infant turns head when cheek is stroked),sucking, moro(neonatal startle
to response infant throw arms back and head. The rapidly closes its limbs to body.
Primary circular reactions - answer-in piaget's framework, the first infant habits during the sensorimotor
stage, centered on the body
Secondary circular reactions - answer-in piaget's framework, habits of the sensorimotor stage lasting
from about 4 months of age to the baby's first birthday, centered on exploring the external world
Coordination of secondary circular - answer-behavior becomes more coordinated and goal-directed, (8-
12 months)
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