Motor and Adaptive Development of Premature Infants from a Preindustrial Setting during the First Year of Life

Cravioto, J; Licardie, E R De; Ramos, Lorenzo; Birch, Herbert G.

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“…Using the Gesell schedule, Cravioto, Licardie, Montiel, and Birch (1967) tested motor and adaptive development of 95 premature Guatemalan babies. They excluded from their sample any baby with physiological complications, yet the tests still showed a significant lag in performance when compared to babies born at full term.…”

Section: Relationship Between Malnutrition and Mental Deficiencymentioning

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Malnutrition and mental deficiency.

Kaplan¹

1972

Psychological Bulletin

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Inadequate nutrition can affect both physiological and psychological development in humans. The nine months of gestation and the first few years of life are the most critical in the growth of brain tissue, and are also the periods of greatest vulnerability to malnutrition. Some variables that mediate the effect of nutrition on mental development include prematurity, birth weight, and the nutritional status of the mother during her childhood. A model for thorough research is suggested and is used to evaluate the major studies of the relationship between malnutrition and mental deficiency.

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Section: Relationship Between Malnutrition and Mental Deficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Malnutrition and mental deficiency.

Kaplan¹

1972

Psychological Bulletin

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Cross-Cultural Studies of Infant Intelligence

Rebelsky

Daniel

1976

Origins of Intelligence

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Infants Around the World: Cross-Cultural Studies of Psychomotor Development from Birth to Two Years

Werner

1972

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

112

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Comparisons were made of the findings of fifty cross-cultural studies of psychomotor development, from birth to two years, of contemporary groups of infants on five continents. The effects of ethnicity, amount and type of caretaker stimulation, and nutritional status were discussed. African infants showed the greatest early acceleration, Caucasian infants the least, while Latin American and Asian infants ranked intermediate. Within each ethnic group, "traditionally" reared, rural infants showed greater motor acceleration than "Westernized, " urban infants in the first six to twelve months, and a greater decline, after weaning, in adaptive and language development, in the second year. Within both traditional and Westernized samples of the same ethnic groups, infants with higher birthweight were more accelerated.

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Motor and Adaptive Development of Premature Infants from a Preindustrial Setting during the First Year of Life

Cited by 4 publications

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Malnutrition and mental deficiency.

Malnutrition and mental deficiency.

Cross-Cultural Studies of Infant Intelligence

Infants Around the World: Cross-Cultural Studies of Psychomotor Development from Birth to Two Years

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