This is the ability to continually do something.

True or False: An infant’s digestive system is still immature!

This is the framework of the body that consists of cartilage, bones, and teeth!

Changes in a child’s length, weight, body proportions, bones, and teeth!

What is the average length of a newborn?

True or False: Infants double their birth weight during the first year!

This is when a child fails to grow at a healthy weight!

True or False: An infant’s head is ¼ of their length!

True or False: Changes in an infant’s length is due to legs growing, not their trunk!

These are soft spots where the skull is not closed!

True or False: An infant’s skeleton is made up of mostly cartilage!

True or False: Bones do not easily misshapen because of softness!

True or False: Deciduous teeth are an infant’s permanent teeth!

Natural, automatic, unlearned movements in response to stimuli needed for survival!

Helps newborns search for food by turning their heads and moving their mouths in response to touch!

Enables them to automatically grasp objects placed in hands!

Toes tighten around any object when the ball of the foot is stroked!

Toes fan out if the outside of the sole is stroked from heel to toe!

Newborns fling arms and legs out and pull them back in when they are startled!

When baby’s feet touch a solid surface, alternating steps are taken as in walking!

The use and control of muscles that direct body movement!

Learn to use and control large muscles! (Trunk, arms, legs, roll over, sit)

Being able to control small muscles such as those in fingers and hands.

The progression of development beginning with the head and moving down to the feet!

True or False: Trunk control develops more slowly than the head!

True or False: Infants learn to crawl by pulling up with their arms, but not lifting abdomens off the floor!

This is when infants lift their abdomens off the floor and using their hands and knees or hands and feet to move!

True or False: Infants learn to stand by pushing their feet and bounce while parents provide support!

Walking by holding onto something for support or ______________!

Direction of development from the center of the body to extremities!

Physical, intellectual, and social-emotional tasks many children learn to accomplish by a certain age are called….

True or False: Each child does not develop at his or her own rate.

________________________ is the hardening of the bones.