Infant Brain Development

Infants are born with how many brain cells?

• 100 Brain Cells

• 100 Thousand Brain Cells

• 100 Millon Brain Cells

• 100 Billion Brain Cells

A stimulating environment for infants means that they have a wide variety of things to see, taste, smell, hear, and touch- enhances brain development.

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Letting the baby cry on its own and calm itself is an example of a stimulating environment.

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Reading to an infant a book is an example of a stimulating environment.

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When infants are born, their eyesight is...

• Nearsighted

• Farsighted

At first, vision is blurry, but as age increases, newborn can focus on objects. Babies born with 2 dimensional vision- builds more complex with age

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Infants prefer to look at light pastel colors.

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Infants prefer patterns that show high contrast like: alternating, stripes, bullseye, faces

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Infants prefer objects that move

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An example of high contrast colors infants prefer are black and white.

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