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Developmental Psych (Chap 4)

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Extensor lag?
DIFFICULTY PERFORMING THE FINAL 15-20 DEGREES OF ACTIVE KNEE EXTENSION.

CAN BE DONE PASSIVELY
What quad muscle originates from the adductor magnus?
VMO
Extensor lag?
THE RANGE OF ACTIVE EXTENSION IS LESS THAN THE RANGE OF PASSIVE EXTENSION OF A JOINT.
The process of eliminating unused synapses?
PRUNING
The ability of the brain to change in response to experience?
PLASTICITY
Reflexes controlled by primitive parts of the brain that disapear during the first year of life?
PRIMITIVE REFLEXES
Adaptive reflexes?
REFLEXES SUCH AS SUCKING THAT HELP NEWBORNS SURVIVE
An infant behavior pattern involving intense daily bouts of crying totaling 3 or more hours a day?
COLIC
A phenomenon in which an apparently healthy infant dies suddenly and unexpectedly?
SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS)
Nativists?
THEORISTS WHO CLAIM THAT PERCEPTUAL ABILITIES ARE INBORN
Theorist who argue that perceptual abilities are learned?
EMPERCISTS
A decline in attention that occurs because a stimulus has become familiar?
HABITUATION
Death within the first year of life?
INFANT MORTALITY
Tracking?
THE SMOOTH MOVEMENTS OF THE EYE USED TO FOLLOW THE TRACK OF A MOVING OBJECT
Auditory acuity?
HOW WELL ONE CAN HEAR
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