Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

________ brain growth consists of additional growth and refinement of established brain structures as a result of specific,varied learning experiences.

Which of the following is consistent with the cephalocaudal trend of body growth?

When skeletal ages are examined,

At birth,the brain is

Visual acuity is

Removing a desirable stimulus or presenting an unpleasant one to decrease the occurrence of a response is called

Breastfeeding for just a few weeks

Following habituation,when a new stimulus causes responsiveness to return to a high level,the increase is called

Of all motor skills,________ may play the greatest role in infant cognitive development.

In ________,infants act on the environment,and stimuli that follow their behavior change the probability that the behavior will occur again.

Dr.Eden studies a fetus's sensitivity to external stimuli by measuring changes in fetal heart rate when various repeated sounds are presented.Dr.Eden is probably using

Which motor activity typically develops first?

Baby Edda's body looks wasted,and she is withdrawn and apathetic.However,she is offered enough food and there is no biological cause for her condition.She most likely has

_________ brain growth refers to the young brain's rapidly developing organization,which depends on ordinary experiences.

________ are nerve cells that store and transmit information.

In interviews with more than 3,000 U.S.parents of infants and toddlers,results indicated that _____ ate no fruits or vegetables.

Pound for pound,an infant's energy needs are __________ those of an adult.

Kipsigi infants walk considerably earlier than North American infants because

Some responses,such as __________,are very difficult to classically condition in young babies because they do not yet have the motor skills needed to deal appropriately with stimuli.

At first,baby Mario was easily awakened every night by a barking dog in his neighborhood.Several weeks later,Mario's sleep is not bothered by the dog's barks.This is an example of