March 31, 2014

Reflexes: 

• inborn automatic responses
• rooting, grasping

Grasping 

• baby tries to grasp whatever is in reach

Rooting 

• a babies tendency when touched on the cheek to open mouth and search for a nipple

Maturation

• physical growth regardless of environment

Puberty

• The period of sexual maturation, during which a person becomes capable of reproducing

Primary Sexual Characteristics

• body structures that make reproduction possible
• vagina, ovaries, testes, penis

Secondary Sexual Characteristics

• non-reproductive sexual characteristics 
• widening of hips, deeper voice, breast development, hair

Physical Milestones

• menopause

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' Stages of Death/ Grief 

• Denial
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance 

Social Development:

• up until about a year, infants don't mind strangers
• infants develop stranger anxiety

Separation Anxiety:

• Child separated from parents, creates problems

Attachment 

• Critical Periods: the optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produce proper development. 
• Those who are deprived touch have trouble forming attachment when they are older. 

3 Types of Attachment

• Mary Ainsworth's Strange Situation
• 1.  Secure -doesn't mind when left
• 2.  Avoidant -baby ignores parent
• 3.  Anxious/ambivalent - excited to see parents and then give cold shoulder (vice versa)