PSY-PC 2500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Habituation, Eye Tracking, Pitch Contour

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology and Human Development
• Course: PSY-PC 2500
• Professor: Professor Amy Needham

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Gestational age under 37 weeks (normally 38-42 weeks) Maternal behaviors like tobacco, alcohol, and drug use. Medical complications like diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. Clinical assessment to get a general assessment of general health. Score of 3 or less indicates high risk infants. Chronological age - # of weeks of prematurity. Milestones do not match up with exactly aged matched children, so you need an adjusted age to assess health measures. What problems can result (be able to name 3) Immature development of major organs like lungs, heart, and brain. Respiratory complications are very common as lungs usually mature later in the gestational weeks, so many babies end up requiring artificial ventilation. Learning difficulties like low iq, short attention span, gaining new information, academic difficulties. Others include: speech impairments, physical impairments, and emotional and physical disabilities. Genetic disorder caused due to trisomy of chromosome 21 (instead of just 2) Some symptoms (be able to name 3 or 4)