Life-span development chap 5 notes
Date Submitted: 05/13/2002 16:50:26
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 3 pages (719 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Psychology
Length: 3 pages (719 words)
I. Reflexes - Born with reflexes and skills necessary to sustain life (sucking, swallowing, Moro/startle reflex, grasping, rooting, Babinsky, stepping, looking, and perceptual abilities like seeing, hearing and smelling)
II. Growth Patterns
* Cephalocaudel pattern - top to bottom
* Proximodistal pattern - center out
* Gross motor skills - large muscle activities (walking)
* Fine motor skills - finely tuned movements (finger dexterity)
* Average North American newborn is 20 inches long and weighs 7.5 pounds. Infants grow about 1 inch …
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…Contains three-fourths of all cells in the brain
(3) Divided into four regions
(a) Occipital lobes - contain the visual cortex
(b) Parietal lobes - contain somatosensory cortex, that receives information about pressure, pain, touch and temperature from all over the body
(c) temporal lobes - contain auditory cortex
(d) Frontal lobes - contain the motor cortex; responsible for making plans, taking initiative and thinking creatively
(4)
Association areas make up large parts of the cerebral cortex
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