NURS 370 Exam Questions with Correct
Answers
Infants - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔0-12 months
Toddler - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1-3 years
Preschool - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔3-6 years
School age - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔6-12 years
Adolescence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔12-18 years
Orderly Pattern - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Timing, rate of change, response to
change are unique for each individual
-All children develop the same pattern and progress within a normal time
frame
,EX: all children learn to sit before they walk
cephalocaudal pattern - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Begins with head progressing
down to chest, trunk, lower extremities
-CG: When born the head is the largest part of the body. The legs grow the
second year
-CD: use arms before legs
-Can control head before arms and legs
proximodistal pattern - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Center ----Periphery
G: occurs in utero
EX: center body formed before limbs
D: Infants begin to focus their eyes then left head and push up/roll
EX: Gain strength and coordination distally they crawl later
Simple Skills develop separately/independently - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Feeding
yourself requires ability to find mouth, grasp an object, control movement of
object, coordination hand from plate to mouth and swallow food.
, Body System Grows at it's own rate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔readily apparent in
fetal development and at onset. of puberty
Body systems fxns becomes increasingly differentiated over time - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔with maturity response becomes more focused
EX: baby covering their ears
Failure to Thrive - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Failure to grow and develop at an
expected rate can mean that a child is failing to thrive.
Differentiation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔simple to the complex progression of
achievement of developmental es
Starts simple, then to complex
Tonic neck/fencing reflex - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disappears around 4 to 6
months
The infant is lying down, the head is turned to the left or right
Moro/startle reflex - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disappear around 4 to 6 months
Startled
Rooting/suckle reflex - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔turn to suckle after cheek is rubbed
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Answers
Infants - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔0-12 months
Toddler - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1-3 years
Preschool - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔3-6 years
School age - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔6-12 years
Adolescence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔12-18 years
Orderly Pattern - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Timing, rate of change, response to
change are unique for each individual
-All children develop the same pattern and progress within a normal time
frame
,EX: all children learn to sit before they walk
cephalocaudal pattern - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Begins with head progressing
down to chest, trunk, lower extremities
-CG: When born the head is the largest part of the body. The legs grow the
second year
-CD: use arms before legs
-Can control head before arms and legs
proximodistal pattern - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Center ----Periphery
G: occurs in utero
EX: center body formed before limbs
D: Infants begin to focus their eyes then left head and push up/roll
EX: Gain strength and coordination distally they crawl later
Simple Skills develop separately/independently - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Feeding
yourself requires ability to find mouth, grasp an object, control movement of
object, coordination hand from plate to mouth and swallow food.
, Body System Grows at it's own rate - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔readily apparent in
fetal development and at onset. of puberty
Body systems fxns becomes increasingly differentiated over time - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔with maturity response becomes more focused
EX: baby covering their ears
Failure to Thrive - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Failure to grow and develop at an
expected rate can mean that a child is failing to thrive.
Differentiation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔simple to the complex progression of
achievement of developmental es
Starts simple, then to complex
Tonic neck/fencing reflex - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disappears around 4 to 6
months
The infant is lying down, the head is turned to the left or right
Moro/startle reflex - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disappear around 4 to 6 months
Startled
Rooting/suckle reflex - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔turn to suckle after cheek is rubbed
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