Exam 5: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

At present it appears clear that environmental stimulation can speed up certain aspects of children's development. But whether this has any lasting effect also depends on all of the following except:

By adulthood the percentage of a person's body that is the head is about:

Which of the following circular reactions are characterized by the use of systematically varied action sequences?

According to Piaget, we can infer that infants understand that objects continue to exist when out of sight if they:

Which of the following developments occur in the brain toward the end of infancy?

What separates the first two substages of the sensorimotor stage from secondary circular reactions?

In sensorimotor substage 4, infants coordinate secondary circular reactions mainly to:

We can tell that children are using representational thought when they:

In which scenario is Jason exhibiting "stimulus orienting"?

Gender differences in growth rate are first observed during:

Being able to think about the relations between objects without actually acting on them physically is, according to Piaget, evidence that children are:

Which of the following statements best describes infants' behaviors toward novel objects?

In substage 6 of the sensorimotor period, children:

Piaget would be most likely to support which of the following statements about cognitive development?

Motor skills involve development and coordination of small muscles are called _________ motor skills, whereas ________ motor skills involve large muscle systems.

What new abilities emerge when a child is around 9 months of age?

Babies find it easier to do which of the following as the bones in the hand and wrist ossify?

What is the A-not-B error?

A condition in which infants grow at a slower rate than is typical is called:

According to Piaget, which of the following is NOT an indicator that a child has acquired the capacity to represent experience mentally?