What is kangaroo care?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: This refers to the practice of putting preterm babies on their caregiver's chest in skin-to-skin contact. This is soothing for both the parent and baby and has a number of beneficial health effects: regulates body functions, increases weight gain, reduces crying, increases sleep, and is correlated with lower mortality.

Psychology

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What percentage of patients fail to fully adhere to medical advice?

a. fewer than 10 percent b. 25-30 percent c. 50-60 percent d. more than 90 percent

Psychology

Which of the following is NOT considered an age-related change in the physical apparatus of an elderly person's eye?

a) the retina of a 60-year-old person receives a third as much light as a 20-year-old person b) the optic nerve becomes less efficient in transmitting nerve impulses to the brain c) the lens of the eye becomes less transparent d) the elderly are less able to distinguish colors

Psychology

A ______ of a concept is the object that contains the greatest number of attributes in common with other members of the concept.

A. attribute B. genotype C. prototype D. expectation

Psychology

Ethnic minority groups have been underrepresented in psychological studies previously, but they are not anymore

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

Psychology