Exam 5: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

The continued use of a once-successful solution whenever possible can result in:

During their first year of life, most healthy babies achieve adult-like body proportions.

Infants in the first year of life have very little understanding of cause-and-effect relationships.

Investigations into infants' physical understandings reveals that they are surprised at many seemingly impossible events, such as objects moving through other objects.

Ache babies spend much of their first 3 years of life in close proximity to their mothers, often being held. Which of the following BEST describes how their gross motor development compares to that of U.S. infants?

The area of the brain thought to be crucial for the appearance of the ability to inhibit impulses is the:

Ivy, age 14 months, will search for an object when she sees it being moved but will stop searching if she does not see the object being hidden. How should her parents respond?

At what age will baby Jane expect liquid to be pourable when transferred from one glass to another?

Babies who are just learning new ways of locomotion typically look to their caregivers for assistance and reassurance.

According to Piaget, sensorimotor development refers to the stage in life during which infants:

Examination of the ages at which children achieve motor milestones shows that:

Changes in body proportions by about 12 months of age make it easier for a child to:

Avia has just learned to stack two blocks to make a tower. How old is she?

Which of the following results was obtained in studies investigating infants' behavior on the virtual cliff apparatus?

Mandler and McDonough found that young infants are capable of ____________ categorization, and by the end of their first year they become capable of ____________ categorization.

Margo has begun searching for objects when they are hidden. This is an example of:

A spurt of prefrontal cortical development has been observed to occur:

After accidentally dropping his spoon on the floor, Sam looks over his high chair tray and purposefully drops his bowl and then his cup. What substage of the sensorimotor period is Sam MOST likely in?

The violations-of-expectations procedure relies on infants' tendencies to:

During their first year of life, Piaget thought children's thinking was tied to the here and now, while during the second year of life, they became able to think about absent objects.