Child Development Chapters: Physical & Intellectual Development

What grows faster than any other tissue or organ in the infant's body during the first year?

• Legs

• Chest

• Brain

• arms

Match the following

• 1/4 of his/her total length

• head compared to chest circumference

• tiny and underdeveloped yet

• legs

• this protrudes due to internal organs

• head

• shorter / do not grow much in 1st year

• jaw and chin

• the head is larger until about 6 months

• abdomen

What is the technical name for "baby teeth" and how many are there?

• Elementary and 24

• Deciduous and 20

• Deciduous and 12

• Elementary and 20

Match the following

• helps newborns search for food

• rooting reflex

• feet touch and take alternating steps

• walking

• grasping reflex with toes

• palmer

• grasping reflex with fingers

• moro

• startle reflex/ fling limbs out and in

• planta

Using muscles to roll over, sit, crawl, stand, and walk involve what skills?​​ (a)  

• fine motor
• moving motor
• body motor
• gross motor

What skills are involved in manipulating eating utensils, puzzle pieces, drawing, coloring, or cutting with a pair of scissors?​ (a)  

• gross motor
• body motor
• brain motor
• fine motor

Reorder the following from what the baby does first to last

• raises head while on abdomen

• creeps

• sits with support

• stands without help

• rolls over from front to back

Match the following advantages to whom it gives an advantage to

• family

• breast feeding as it causes the uterus to contract to original size

• baby

• breast feeding as it saves time and money

• Mom

• breast feeding to get correct proportions of nutrients and different flavors of mom's diet

What is the condition in which an infant has intense abdominal pain and cries inconsolably?

• indigestion

• heart burn

• twisted stomach

• colic

What is the reflex where a baby pushes food out of his/her mouth, but doesn't mean that they actually dislike the food or are being stubborn.

• No reflex

• protrusion reflex

• extrusion reflex