PSYCH 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
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Chapter 4: infancy early learning, motor skills, and perceptual capacities: the organized infant, reflexes. Inborn, automatic response to a particular form of stimulation. Swimming stay afloat to increase chance of retrieval. Palmar grasp so strong in first week. Comfort baby: control distress and amount of stimulation [sucking] Tonic neck reaching [combine vision and arm movement] Most newborn reflexes disappear during first six months. Due to gradual increase in voluntary control as cerebral cortex. Weak, absent, rigid, exaggerated, or persistent brain damage: states. 5 states of arousal; 16-18 hours of sleep. 2 year old conforms to circadian rhythm. 2-3 months regularly exposed to light sleep better at night. B. 4) also due to cultural beliefs and practices. Regularity more important to dutch than us; dutch babies put to sleep earlier and slept 2 hours longer. Western parents work schedules isolate 3-4 months for night sleep. But melatonin [drowsiness hormone] doesn"t secret until 6 months.
