From readings answer the following
PART 1 Facts
Define the two patterns of growth: cephalocaudal and proximodistal. Give one example of each.
What’s the average weight and height of a North American Newborn?
Of 95 % of newborns?
How much bodyweight an average infant loses the first several days of life?
What is average weight gain the first month?
By when do infants double their weight?
By when do infants triple their weight?
How many inches do they grow per month the first year?
Is growth smooth and continuous? How?
Approximately how many brain cells the brain of a newborn infant has?
What is an EEG? What is an fNRIS? MEG?
List the brain’s four lobes and their function.
Draw a simple neuron and label all its parts.
Explain the two significant changes neurons undergo the first year of life?
How do the brains of children who grow in deprived environments look like?
What is the emphasis of the Neuroconstructivist view?
What function does sleep have?
What are the average hours infants 0-2 years sleep?
At what age do most infants sleep thru the night?
List the four factors related to a shorter duration of infant sleep found by Nevares and others 2010.
Does increased father involvement in caregiving activities improve the infant sleep?
Does higher maternal emotional availability at bedtime associated with a lower level of infant distress and longer infant sleep duration?
By 8 months most American babies sleep how many hours?
What two cultures practiced Shared Sleeping with mother?
What is AAPTFIPS? What do they recommend and why?
What is the leading cause of infant death in the USA?
When is the risk of SIDS highest?
Low birth weight infants are ____to____times more likely to die of SIDS than are their normal weight counterparts.
Do we recommend infants sleep on their tummies?
What is the most critical factor in predicting SIDS?
When do most children typically Roll? Sit? Walk alone?
Are structured baby exercise classes recommended by infancy experts?
What are the most current guidelines of physical activity for young children?
True or False
Breastfeeding is linked to lower SIDS
Pacifier use is linked to lower SIDS
African Americans and Eskimos are four to six times as likely to die from SIDS
SIDS is more common in low socioeconomic groups
SIDS is more common in infants passively exposed to smoke
SIDS is more common when infants and parents share the same bed
SIDS is more common if infants sleep in soft bedding
SIDS is 70 percent less common if the infant sleep in a room with a fan
Introducing vegetables by 4-5 months decreases fussy eating behaviors at 4 years of age
Mother smoking the last trimester of prenatal development is associated with reaching motor milestones later.
Breastfeeding is linked to reaching milestones earlier.
Define:
Reflex
Rooting Reflex
Moro Reflex
Sucking Reflex
Grasping Reflex
Gross Motor skills
Fine Motor skills
Sensation
Perception
Affordances
Include in your charts/tables:. Prescription and Non-prescription Drugs, Psychoactive drugs, Alcohol, Nicotine, Cocaine, Marijuana, Incompatible blood types, Environmental Hazards, Maternal Diseases, Maternal diet and nutrition, Maternal age, Emotional states and Stress and Paternal factors. List them as Conditions and add to domains how they may affect. THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN EI. THIS INFORMATION will guide your evaluations and interventions.
PART 2
in Verbal and Motor Accomplishments
The following activity provides a good bridge between the chapters on infancy and early childhood. This activity illustrates several principles of development, such as the cephalocaudal and proximodistal principles; prompts discussion of issues, such as the relative roles of maturation and experience in development; and gets you thinking about how to measure relative degrees of development.
Directions: Study the list of verbal and motor accomplishments in the activity below and list the order in which you think each accomplishment occurs. DO NOT CHANGE THE QUESTIONS FORMATS.
Next, answer the questions that appear below the list of developmental accomplishments.
Motor and Verbal Abilities Activity
1. Study the list of verbal and motor accomplishments given below, and list the order in which you think each accomplishment occurs:
Order of Development Motor and Verbal Ability
________ Walks alone; says several words
________ Describes the difference between a bird and a dog
________ Turns head to follow moving object
________ Names penny, nickel, and dime
________ Climbs stairs; says many words
________ Laces shoes
________ Sits alone for 1 minute; says “da-da”
________ Tells how a baseball and an orange or an airplane and a kite are alike
________ Puts on shoes
________ Tells time to quarter hour
________ Runs; uses simple word combinations
________ Walks while holding on to something
2. Study the order of accomplishments that you have identified. Describe any rules or patterns that you think apply to the order. Justify your conclusions with appropriate examples from the list.
3. Which of the accomplishments do you think come about chiefly through maturation? Which involve training? Do you see any trends here? Identify the trends and justify your conclusions with appropriate examples.
PART 3
Evaluating and Identifying Developmentally Appropriate Infant Toys
This activity reinforces your knowledge and understanding of infants’ sensory and perceptual abilities and provides an opportunity for you to apply this knowledge to determine items that might serve as age-appropriate toys for infants- whether they are commercially available toys or ordinary household items. For this assignment, first examine toys targeted to infants to see if the toys are appropriate given what we know about infant motor, sensory, and perceptual abilities. Go to the toy section of a store or review toys online at a URLs such as www.amazon.com. Find one toy that you deem to be “appropriate” for the given age group (i.e., the age group identified by the toy manufacturer) and one toy that you deem to be “inappropriate.” Clearly articulate why you deem the toys to be appropriate or inappropriate using information from the text on motor, sensory, and perceptual development/skills.
Finally, choose an age group from infancy, and then think about a common household item that might serve as a toy that would promote motor, sensory, and perceptual development. Explain why and how your toy might facilitate skills in these areas.
LINKS TO RESOURCES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS
Videos:
The Visual Cliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30lO3gXeoUs
Baby Human: Attachment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dZfM9QUBfg
Baby Human To Walk: Rolling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncpgTfR7w0U
Baby Human To Walk: Sitting to Crawling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUewmrLZFPg
Baby Human To Walk: Cruising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKE77zny-ss
Baby Human To Walk: Walking https://youtu.be/GtZ91JuavxU
Baby Human ( 16 month old ) https://youtu.be/kBkqDqVge_c
Baby Human: Self Awareness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-rWB1jOt9s
Baby Human : Temperamenthttps://youtu.be/fAmyt5gRd3k
Myths About Baby Walkers https://youtu.be/jzFY1KDoaeU
Fine Motor Development https://youtu.be/LiTuGv_GeaE
