HDFS

Severe malnutrition during the first year of life leading to death

Appropriate weight gain, fewer allergies, visual acuity

Newborns automatically suck an object placed in their mouth

Occurs when the infant's cheek is stroked or the side of the mouth is touched

Neonatal startle response that occurs in response to a sudden, intense noise or movement: Arched back, throws back head flings out arms/legs

Occurs when something touches the infant's palms: responds by grasping tightly

Large muscle activities, such as moving one's arms & walking

More finely-tuned movements, such as finger dexterity

Motor control of head, trunk and arms occurs prior to control of hands, and then fingers

Robert Fantz: infants look at patterns over solids for longer periods of time (prefer black and white)

Gibson & Walk Visual Cliff: concluded that by crawling age, we perceive depth

Begins during prenatal development: at birth, newborns react to sounds heard while in womb (cat in the hat study)

Emerge about 6-7 weeks gestation & preferences begin in utero

Can differentiate odors at birth & have preferences (amniotic fluid of mother)

Gathering sensory info & operating physically on the environment

Begins with the ability to hold mental representations of the world: can now represent the world with words, images and drawings

Conservation & Classification

Object permanence

Objects continue to exist when they are not visible

Egocentrism

Inability to distinguish the perspective of others from ones own

Incorporation of new knowledge into existing schemes

Adjusting existing schemes to fit with new information

The distance between actual developmental level determined by problem solving and the level of potential development

The support a child might receive from a more capable peer, teacher or parent

Meltzoff: Imitative abilities are biologically base because infants can imitate facial expressions within 72 hours of birth

The ability to detect and respond to small changes in the environment

The ability to focus on relevant stimuli while ignoring irrelevant stimuli

The ability to allocate attention to more than one stimulus

Limited capacity and limited duration

Active 'workspace' where infer is accessible for current use

Huge capacity, potentially very long duration (decades)

Personally experienced events

A non-conscious recollection of a prior experience that is revealed indirectly