HDF 351 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Prenatal Development, Oxytocin, Uterus
12 Oct 2018
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HDF 351
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
9/4/18
Lecture - The Science of Infant Development:
Why study infancy?
What do you think about babies?
• They are cute
• They cannot fend for themselves/helpless
• A lot of change happens
• Developing quickly
What makes us want to cuddle and care for them?
• Big eyes can be a trigger for thinking something is cute – neoteny
o Tiny torsos and giant heads with large eyes.
• Helplessness
Infancy – prenatal development to age 3.
Infancy researchers must ask two crucial questions:
1. Which questions are most important to investigate and, why?
2. What are the most valid and reliable ways of answering these questions?
Which questions are most important to investigate and, why?
Questions:
• Nutritional needs
• Knowing what to do and not do surrounding different topics in infancy.
• Attachment
• Handling difficult topics (toddlers)
• Crying – too much, how to soothe
• Sleep – patterns, expectations, safe sleep habits
• Basic developmental milestones
• Health and illness
• Pets – interacting with them
• Education – stimulation, what is too much, cognitive and motor
• Sibling/peer relationships
Best questions are those that:
• Improve our basic knowledge of infant development
• Ca e applied to iprovig ifats’ physial ad psychological health and well-being.
Paper Information:
• Popular press article on some topic regarding infancy
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9/4/18
• Not scholarly
• Step one: identify your topic and find your article
o Not cosleeping.
o Not so broad
o has to be infant development
▪ up to age 3
• step two: annotated bibliography
o article
o why it is relevant to your paper
o why you will use the article
• step three: write paper
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Document Summary
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