Relative Kicking Frequency of Newborns

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In this essay, the writer discusses the article "The Relative Kicking Frequency of Infants Born Full-term and Preterm During Learning and Short-term and Long-term Memory Periods of the Mobile Paradigm". The writer explains that this experiment was done to compare full-term infants' to preterm infants' kicking in a task-specific manner, which is the mobile paradigm. The writer maintains that one purpose of the study was to see if infants would increase the kicking of their tethered, or right leg, to make the mobile turn. Further, the writer notes that another purpose of the study was to test if the infants would not only learn the mobile paradigm on day one, but would also retain this task for a short-term memory period of 24 hours, and the long-term memory period of 1 week.

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"For the first three minutes there was baseline; the mobile was attached to the left side of the crib so that when the infant kicked the mobile did not turn. For the next nine minutes, called acquisition, the mobile was moved to the right hand side of the crib so that when the infant kicked their tethered leg the mobile moved. For the comparison group the mobile remained on the left and the investigator moved the mobile with a transparent wire. During minutes 12 to 15 there was extinction where the mobile was back on the left hand side and the kicking did not move the mobile. For the full-term group there were three testing sessions. The first two were on consecutive days and then the third one was one week later. The preterm group had 12 testing sessions: 2 sessions consecutively for 6 weeks. During each of these sessions the kicks of the tethered and non-tethered leg were recorded."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Heathcock, J. C., Bhat A. N., Lobo M. A., and Galloway, J. C. (2005). The relative kicking frequency of infants born full-term and preterm during learning and shot-term and long-term memory periods of the mobile paradigm. Physical Therapy, 85(1), 8 - 18.
• Cole, M., Cole, S.R., Lightfoot, C. (2005). The development of children. New York: Worth Publishers

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