Exam 4: Infancy: Physical, Neurocognitive, Sensorimotor and Cognitive Development

The theory of autostimulation of REM sleep suggests that REM sleep serves the single important purpose of providing young infants with intense, vibrant and complex dreams, establishing their later ability to be creative.

As a result of cot death, Aboriginal babies are three times more likely than Anglo- Australian infants to die, and Maori infants are twice as likely to die as Pakeha (Anglo) New Zealand infants.

From weighing about ___________ kilograms at birth, the typical infant weighs about ___________ kilograms at its second birthday.

Infants from all cultures spend roughly the same amount of time asleep during the period from birth to three months.

By the end of infancy, typical two- year- olds have achieved half their adult height and about one- fifth of their adult weight.

Which of the following is not one of the six substages in the growth of sensorimotor intelligence?

Which of the following senses is least developed when an infant is born?

Evidence from around the world is consistent with the view that when families discontinue their time- honoured traditional practices in favour of the idea of the benefits of modern western technology, they may be doing their offspring ___________.

Which of the following is linked to higher incidence of an infant dying of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?

According to Brackbill (1979), infants exposed to unpleasantly intense stimuli, including bright lights or a hot pad, displayed ___________ crying behaviour.

At birth the human brain is only about ___________ percent of its adult weight. By the second birthday the brain will have increased ___________ to percent of the weight of the adult brain.

___________ are the muscular and coordination abilities that enable children to move around, pick up things and generally control the positions and movements of their bodies.

Which of the following is an effective method of soothing a baby's crying?

In traditional Aboriginal communities, infants spend ___________ percent of their time being held by a sitting adult.

When Field (1982) compared New Zealand adults with six- month- olds in a task that required turning the head to locate the source of a brief burst of sound, he found that the infants were quicker than the adults and equally accurate.

Which of the following is not an automatic reflex behaviour of a baby?

According to Hamilton (1981), which of the following behaviours do Anglo- Australian infants acquire before their Indigenous counterparts?

Newborn infants have a poor sense of smell and cannot distinguish the smell of their own mother's milk from a different nursing mother's milk.

The phase in the lifespan known as infancy begins at birth and ends around the ___________ birthday.

Kagan (1970) found that a typical infant would find a toy they are completely unfamiliar with more interesting than a toy that was slightly different from one they have seen previously.