Chapter infancy physical

Abilities to control and use small muscles

• gross-motor skills

• developmental milestones

• fine-motor skills

Abilities to control and use large muscles

• gross-motor skills

• fine-motor skills

• motor development

first set of teeth

• involuntary

• skeletal system

• age norm

• deciduous teeth

condition in which a child fails to grow at a healthy rate

• body proportions

• failure to thrive

• ossification

• motor development

Teeth are part of the human skeletal system

• true

• false

The head to toe measurement for babies is referred to as length because a baby does not stand at birth

• true

• false

motor development includes gross-motor skills, but not fine motor skills.

• true

• false

leaving a 2 month old asleep in the middle of an adult's bed is a safe child care practice

• true

• false

Babies usually roll from back to front before they roll from front to back.

• true

• false

By the end of the 1st year, the length of the infant has

• increased about 1 1/2 times

• doubled

• tripled

• none of the above