Across
- 2. type of development, about interacting with others/society
- 3. what we call a baby's muscle movements- fine and gross are the two categories
- 4. infant reflex to close their hand/foot around something on their palm/sole
- 7. best way to increase baby's vocabulary and language skills
- 8. type of development, about recognizing and expressing feelings and identity
- 11. infant reflex that mimics walking if you place a very young infant's feet flat on the ground
- 14. fatty coating that helps messages transmit faster
- 17. how we determine what skills a baby has
- 19. the type of attachment we want; caregiver is a secure base child can venture out from to explore the world
- 21. formed when two neurons connect
- 24. type of development, "change to person and what they can do"
- 25. are behaviors or skills we look for at certain ages, based on the average of when most babies can do it
- 28. how infants and young children learn
- 29. this part of an infant is big in proportion to the rest of them
- 30. the amount of time baby can focus on something without getting bored
- 33. never heat formula in this
- 34. never let baby sleep this way
- 35. type of development, "change to brain and what it can do"
- 41. helps a baby develop their neck muscles, must be supervised
- 43. change in skills
- 44. infant reflex to fling arms out and look shocked when they feel they're falling backward
- 45. when you "lose" pathways you haven't used
Down
- 1. our brain's nerve cells
- 2. narrating the world around baby and describing items/processes
- 5. infant reflex to turn head toward something touching their cheek and to make sucking motions
- 6. a child's innate personality traits, measured by standards like "adaptability" "intensity" "perceptiveness" and "mood"
- 9. the ability to learn from sensory information
- 10. when you gain new pathways with new experiences
- 12. type of motor skill governing large movements
- 13. type of motor skill governing more intricate movements
- 15. feeling responses to the world around us
- 16. what you inherit in your genes
- 18. baby-talk; exaggerated speech to baby
- 20. the tail of the neuron, "sends" messages
- 21. type of development, "change to body and what it can do"
- 22. risk of leaving baby in crib with too many items/sleeping on stomach
- 23. the head of the neuron, "catches" messages
- 26. the gap between neurons
- 27. part of a newborn that needs to be supported
- 31. a baby's bond to their main caregiver
- 32. change in physical size
- 36. attachment that forms when caregiver is lost or can't be trusted, or provides inconsistent response
- 37. what surrounds you socially, emotionally, physically, in terms of class
- 38. the language of children (how they show us what they feel before they can tell us)
- 39. infant reflex that causes them to suck on anything you put in their mouth/against the roof of their mouth
- 40. the hereditary element of cognition- the part we can't control the development of (neuron part)
- 42. an action you perform without thinking, as a reaction to a stimulus