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Key infant reflexes: - Answer✔1) Rooting
2) Moro Reflex
3) Grasping/Palmer Reflex
4) Stepping Reflex
Rooting - Answer✔A reflex where a baby turns their head when the cheek or mouth is touched.
Moro reflex - Answer✔A startled response: infant arches back and throws out limbs.
Palmer reflex - Answer✔A spontaneous grasp made by an infant when the palm is rubbed.
Stepping reflex - Answer✔Infant makes stepping motions when held above surfaces.
Sleep states: - Answer✔nREM and REM sleep
nREM sleep - Answer✔Regular sleep, non-rapid eye movement, where the baby is nearly
motionless.
REM sleep - Answer✔Irregular sleep, characterized by uneven breathing, half of an infant's
daily sleep pattern.
Shaken baby syndrome - Answer✔Brain damage caused by an infant being violently shaken.
5Ss of soothing - Answer✔1) Swaddling
2) Side/stomach
3) Swinging
4) Shushing sounds
5) Sucking
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Why 5Ss work: - Answer✔-Touch releases endorphins
-Soothing noises are calming
-Swinging is similar to womb
-Swaddling limits overstimulation
Infancy - Answer✔-First two years of life
-Reaching 30 lbs
-32-35in tall
Two types of growth: - Answer✔Cephalocaudal
Proximodistal
Cephalocaudal - Answer✔Growth starts at the top with the head.
-Brain and skull are primary locations of growth (limbs/body later).
Overproduction - Answer✔Brains have more synaptic connections than needed.
Neural pruning - Answer✔Important connections are maintained, and unimportant ones are
discarded.
Critical periods - Answer✔Must learn information within a specific span of time, otherwise
brains won't develop
Example of critical periods - Answer✔Language acquisition (before 5yo), deaf children babbling
in sign
Proximodistal - Answer✔Growth starts in the trunk and moves to the limbs.
-Gross motor b4 fine motor
Piaget - Answer✔-Emphasized the role of the individual in constructing knowledge.
-Significant with Infancy and the Sensorimotor Stage
Scheme/Schema - Answer✔The brain organizing and categorizing concepts: cafeteria, soccer
team, dog.
Assimilation - Answer✔Absorbing information into an existing schema: calling all men with
beards, Santa.
Accommodation - Answer✔Changing schemas to make sense of incoming information:
modifying the Santa schema to only certain men with beards.
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PSYC 140 (Portage) Module 3 Exam
Questions With Correct Answers 100%
Verified.
Key infant reflexes: - Answer✔1) Rooting
2) Moro Reflex
3) Grasping/Palmer Reflex
4) Stepping Reflex
Rooting - Answer✔A reflex where a baby turns their head when the cheek or mouth is touched.
Moro reflex - Answer✔A startled response: infant arches back and throws out limbs.
Palmer reflex - Answer✔A spontaneous grasp made by an infant when the palm is rubbed.
Stepping reflex - Answer✔Infant makes stepping motions when held above surfaces.
Sleep states: - Answer✔nREM and REM sleep
nREM sleep - Answer✔Regular sleep, non-rapid eye movement, where the baby is nearly
motionless.
REM sleep - Answer✔Irregular sleep, characterized by uneven breathing, half of an infant's
daily sleep pattern.
Shaken baby syndrome - Answer✔Brain damage caused by an infant being violently shaken.
5Ss of soothing - Answer✔1) Swaddling
2) Side/stomach
3) Swinging
4) Shushing sounds
5) Sucking
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Why 5Ss work: - Answer✔-Touch releases endorphins
-Soothing noises are calming
-Swinging is similar to womb
-Swaddling limits overstimulation
Infancy - Answer✔-First two years of life
-Reaching 30 lbs
-32-35in tall
Two types of growth: - Answer✔Cephalocaudal
Proximodistal
Cephalocaudal - Answer✔Growth starts at the top with the head.
-Brain and skull are primary locations of growth (limbs/body later).
Overproduction - Answer✔Brains have more synaptic connections than needed.
Neural pruning - Answer✔Important connections are maintained, and unimportant ones are
discarded.
Critical periods - Answer✔Must learn information within a specific span of time, otherwise
brains won't develop
Example of critical periods - Answer✔Language acquisition (before 5yo), deaf children babbling
in sign
Proximodistal - Answer✔Growth starts in the trunk and moves to the limbs.
-Gross motor b4 fine motor
Piaget - Answer✔-Emphasized the role of the individual in constructing knowledge.
-Significant with Infancy and the Sensorimotor Stage
Scheme/Schema - Answer✔The brain organizing and categorizing concepts: cafeteria, soccer
team, dog.
Assimilation - Answer✔Absorbing information into an existing schema: calling all men with
beards, Santa.
Accommodation - Answer✔Changing schemas to make sense of incoming information:
modifying the Santa schema to only certain men with beards.
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