PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Otitis Media, Breastfeeding, Ovarian Cancer
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Bottle feeding: the first 4-6 months of life is important human milk or an alternative formula is the baby"s source of nutrients and energy, growing consensus is that breast feeding is better for the baby"s. It"s recommended that exclusive breast feeding occurs in the first 6 months followed by continued breast feeding as complementary foods are introduced health. If she is infected with hiv or some other infectious disease that can be transmitted through her milk. These studies are correlational, not experimental, and women who breast feed are wealthier, older, more educated, and likely more health-conscious. The dynamic systems view: dynamic systems theory. Infants assemble motor skills for perceiving and acting. To develop motor skills, infants must perceive something in the environment that motivates them to act and then use their perceptions to fine-tune their movements. Motor skills represent pathways to the infant"s goals: when infants are motivated to do something, they might create a new motor behavior.