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| Biological mechanism that protects the brain when malnutrition affects body growth (Brain is last to be damaged by malnutrition) |
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| Average, standard, measurement, calculated from measurements of many individuals within a specific group |
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| Range from 0-100 for any variable within a population |
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| Rapid eye movement sleep. Dreaming, rapid brain waves |
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| Custom which infant and parents sleep in the same bed |
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| One of billions of nerve cells in the CNS |
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| Outer layers of the brain. Most thinking, feeling, and sensing involve this |
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| Fiber that extends from a neuron and transmits(speak) electrochemical impulses neuron to dendrites of others |
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| Fiber from neuron that 'listens' to electrochemical impulses from the axon |
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| Intersection b/w axon of one and dendrites of other |
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| Great increase in # of dendrites that occurs in an infant's brain in first 2 years |
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| Experience-Expectant Brain Functions |
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| Brain functions that require certain basic common experiences (which an infant can expect to have) in order to develop normally- Being feed |
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| Experience-Depentent Brain Function |
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| Brain functions that depend on particular, variable experiences and that therefore may or may not develop in a particular infant- Feed through a bottle |
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| Area of cortex at the front of the brain that specializes in anticipation, planning, and impulse control |
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| Life-threatening injury that occurs when infant is forcefully shaken back and forth (ruptures blood cells in brain and breaks neural connections |
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| Inborn drive to remedy a development deficit |
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| Response to a sensory system when it detects a stimulus (eyes, ears, skin, tongue, nose) |
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| Mental processing of sensory information when the brain interprets a sensation |
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| Ability to focus the 2 eyes in a coordinated manner (to see one image) |
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| Learned ability to move some part of the body,in actions ranging from a large lead to a flicker of the eyelid (Motor-movement of muscles) |
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| Unlearned, involuntary action/movement emitted in response to a particular stimulus (Occurs without thought) |
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Gross Motor Skills
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| Physical abilities involving large body movements, such as walking and jumping |
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Fine Motor Skills
Fine- Small |
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| Physical abilities involving small movements (hands and fingers- drawing, picking up a coin) |
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| Process that stimulates the body's immune system to defend against attack by a particular contagious disease. Naturally or through injection |
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| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |
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| Situation in which a seemingly healthy infant, at least 2 months of age, suddenly stops breathing and dies unexpectedly while asleep |
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| Protein-Calorie Malnutrition |
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Condition in which a person does not consume sufficient food of any kind
(Causes- several illnesses, severe weight loss, and even death) |
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| Disease of severe protein-calorie malnutrition during early infancy, in which growth stops, body tissue waste away, and the infant eventually dies |
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| Disease of chronic malnutrition during childhood, in which a protein deficiency makes the child more vulnerable to other diseases, such as measles, diarrhea, and influenza |
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