PGS341 Ch.3 Vocab
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| Reflexes | show 🗑
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| show | State in which a baby is calm with eyes open and attentive; the baby seems to be deliberately inspecting the environment
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| Waking activity | show 🗑
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| Crying | show 🗑
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| show | State in which a baby alternates from being still and breathing regularly to moving gently and breathing irregularly; the eyes are closed throughout
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| show | cry that starts softly and gradually becomes more intense; often heard when babies are hungry or tired
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| show | More intense version of a basic cry
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| Pain cry | show 🗑
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| show | Irregular sleep in which an infant's eyes dart rapidly beneath the eyelids while the body is quite active
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| show | Sleep in which heart rate, breathing, and brain activity are steady
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| show | When a healthy baby dies suddenly for no apparent reason
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| show | Consistent style or pattern of behavior
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| show | Being small for one's age because of inadequate nutrition
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| Neuron | show 🗑
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| show | Center of the neuron that keeps the neuron alive
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| Dendrite | show 🗑
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| Axon | show 🗑
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| Terminal buttons | show 🗑
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| show | Chemicals released by the terminal buttons that allow neurons to communicate with each other
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| show | Wrinkled surface of the brain that regulates many functions that are distinctly human
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| show | Right & left halves of the cortex
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| show | Thick bundle of neurons that connects the two hemispheres
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| Frontal cortex | show 🗑
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| Neural plate | show 🗑
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| show | Fatty sheath that wraps around neurons and enables them to transmit information more rapidly
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| Synaptic pruning | show 🗑
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| Electroencephalogram (EEG) | show 🗑
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| show | Method of studying brain activity by using magnetic fields to track blood flow in the brain
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| show | Extent to which brain organization is flexible
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| show | Process by which the wiring of the brain is organized by experiences that are common to most humans
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| show | Process by which an individual's unique experiences over a lifetime affect brain structures & organization
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| show | Coordinated movements of the muscles & limbs
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| Locomote | show 🗑
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| show | Motor skills associated with grasping, holding, & manipulating objects
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| show | Early, unsteady form of walking done by infants
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| Toddlers | show 🗑
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| show | Theory that views motor development as involving many distinct skills that are organized and reorganized over time to meet specific needs
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| Differentiation | show 🗑
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| show | Linking individual motions into a coherent, coordinated whole
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| show | Process by which the brain receives, selects, modifies, and organizes incoming nerve imulses that are the result of physical stimulation
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| Visual acuity | show 🗑
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| Cones | show 🗑
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| show | Glass-covered platform that appears to have a “shallow” and “deep” side; used to study infant's depth perception
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| show | Cues to depth perception in which motion is used to estimate depth
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| Visual expansion | show 🗑
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| show | Kinetic cue to depth perception based on the fact that nearby moving objects move across our visual field faster than do distant objects
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| Retinal disparity | show 🗑
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| show | Cues to depth perception that are used to convey depths in drawings and paintings
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| show | A cue to depth perception based on the fact that parallel lines come together at a single point in the distance
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| show | Perceptual cue to depth based on the fact that the texture of objects changes from coarse and distinct for nearby objects to finer and less distinct for distant objects
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| Intersensory redundancy | show 🗑
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| show | Ideas about connections between thoughts, beliefs, intentions, and behavior that create an intuitive understanding of the link between mind and behavior
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