You are a director of a day care center. What should you tell your employees about the importance of kangaroo care?

What will be an ideal response?


This refers to the practice of putting preterm babies on a caregiver's chest in skin-to-skin contact. This is soothing for both the caregiver 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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Achievement motivation is characterized as _________.

A. a fixed mindset B. a growth mindset C. competence motivation D. extrinsic motivation

Psychology

Like Skinner, Lewin argued that ____

a. ?a mathematical model was the ultimate goal of psychology b. ?the individual person should be the focus of study c. ?the "whole" of the environment and S-R contingencies must be considered in the functional analysis of behavior d. ?statistics were not useful e. ?behavior should be the focus of behaviorism

Psychology

The empirical study of consciousness DOES NOT include which topic?

A) REM sleep B) Amnesia C) Extrasensory perception D) Primes E) Memory

Psychology

Describe the symptoms and causes of phenylketonuria and Tay-Sachs disease. How are these diseases related to one another?

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology