Chapter 8 Review-Child Development

Match the following

• Physical, intellectual, & social-emotional tasks most children learn to accomplish by a certain age.

• gross-motor skills

• Direction of development from the center of the body to the extremities.

• proximodistal development

• Being able to use the large muscles to roll over, sit crawl, stand, and walk.

• motor development

• Use and control of muscles that direct body movenments.

• developmental milestones

• Being able to use and control the small muscles, especially those in the fingers and hands.

• fine-motor skills

The ____ grows faster than any other tissue or organ in the infant's body during the first year.

• heart

• stomach

• brain

• skin

Nonpermanent teeth, sometimes caleed baby teeth, are technically called ____.

• premature teeth

• deciduous teeth

• permanent teeth

• molars

Weaning is the gradual process of introducing new foods.

• true

• false

Six-month old infants should not eat fruits and vegetables.

• true

• false

Colic is a condition in which an infant has intense adominal pain and cries inconsolably.

• true

• false

A condition in which an infant has intense abdominal pain and cries inconsolably.

• ossification

• voluntary grasping

• intolerance

• colic

On average, newborns need about ____ hours of sleep per day.

• 10-14

• 11-15

• 14-17

• 15-18

To help babies with physical activity, parents often engage their babies in ____ several times each day.

• tummy time

• play time

• sleep time

• none of the above

Voluntary grasping is the intentional grasping of objects.

• true

• false