Human Growth and Development
Lecture 5 - Physical Development in Infancy
1/31/2006
- Physical Growth
- Cephalocaudal Growth Pattern
- Proximodistal pattern
- Brain Development
- Neuron
- Myelination
- "Prune" the connections we don’t use
- Wire according to early experience
- Sleep
- Large % of REM sleep
- Sleep w/ mom?
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- Nutrition
- demand feeding
- higher fat balance than what adults require
- breast-feeding
- Motor Development
- Reflexes
- rooting
- sucking
- Moro
- stepping
- grasping
- Babinski
- Planter
- Gross motor skills
- variation in timing
- order is standard
- Fine motor skills
- proprioceptive cues
- gripping an object
- Sensation & Perception
- Sensation
- Perception
- Vision
- Depth perception
- Hearing
- Intermodal Perception
- Pain
- Taste
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Last updated: 1/26/06