PSYC2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Muscle Tone, Rapideye, Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
13 Mar 2016
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Reflex: an inborn, automatic response to a particular form of stimulation. State of arousal: different degrees of sleep and wakefulness. Rapid-eye movement (rem) sleep: an irregular sleep state in which electrical brain-wave activity is similar to that of the waking state; eyes dart beneath lids; heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing are uneven; and slight body movement occur. Non-rapid-eye movement (nrem) sleep: a regular sleep state in which the body is almost motionless and heart rate, breathing, and brain-wave activity slow and even. Sudden infant death syndrome (sids): the unexpected death, usually during the night, of an infant under 1 year of age that remains unexplained after thorough investigations. Neonatal behavioral assessment scale (nbas): a test developed to assess a newborn infant"s behavioral status by evaluating the baby"s reflexes, muscle tone, state changes, and responsiveness to physical and social stimuli. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): in classical conditioning, a stimulus that consistently produces a reflexive, or unconditioned response.
