What is an assumptions about brain development?
-Brain development an epigenetic process (not genetic)
What are the 3 Periods of Prenatal development?
What are 2 things we know about brain growth?
- By age 2 years, brain is 80% of adult size
When is the first Trimester for a Fetus?
1-3 months
What happens during the first trimester?
what period is the 2nd trimester?
3-6 months
What happens during the second trimester?
- Most of the brains neurons are in place.
What period is the 3rd trimester?
6-9 months
What happens during the third trimester?
Fetus takes beginnings of personality.
What are the baby’s adaptation to labor/delivery?
To what extent can a newborn taste?
- can readily learn to like new tastes
To what extent can a newborn smell?
- can locate odors and identify mother by smell from birth
To what extent can a newborn hear?
- can distinguish between a variety of sound patterns when only a few days old
What 2 hormones facilitate care giving?
Oxytocin and prolactin
List 7 ways infants are social
In Bowlby’s early attachment theory, Children come into the world biologically, preprogramed to form attachments with others because it will help them what?
Survive
In Harlow’s early attachment theory, a Mother’s love is seen as:
What are the 4 attachments types in Ainsworth’s Strange Situation?
What does the child’s behavior look like in Secure attachment?
What does the child’s behavior look like in Insecure-avoidant attachment?
What does the child’s behavior look like in Insecure-Ambivalent attachment?
- not comforted by return of caregiver
What does the child’s behavior look like in Insecure-Disorganized attachment?
- often appear dazed, confused or apprehensive in presence of caregiver
What does the CAREGIVERS’s behavior look like in Secure attachment type?
- responsive to child’s needs
In what attachment type is the CAREGIVER unresponsive, uncaring and dismissive to the child?
insecure-avoidant