Exam 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

The view of human development that emphasizes the ways biological processes and environmental conditions influence the brain's development, particularly as it is applies to infancy.

Infants control the muscles of their trunk and arms before they control their hands and fingers, and they use their whole hands before they can control several fingers. This indicates a _____ pattern of growth.

The sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top-the head-with physical growth in size, weight, and feature differentiation gradually working from top to bottom.

Which of the following is NOT true of the neuroconstructivist view?

Which of the following is a requirement of joint attention?

Mariah has suffered brain damage to the left frontal lobe of her brain. When she tries to speak, she struggles to produce words and is unable to say them correctly. Mariah has damage to her:

Infants can see objects before they can control their torso, and they can use their hands long before they can crawl or walk. This would indicate that they have a _____ pattern of growth.

Of the following babies, who are between two and four months old, who is at the highest risk of SIDS?

One reason older children and adults have difficulty recalling events from their infant and early childhood years is that during these years the _____ of the brain are immature.

Janelle, a college student volunteering at a local preschool, noticed that one child started to stand without holding on to furniture, then others quickly started to develop the same skills. This motivation to create new patterns of movement is best explained by the:

The use of fetal fMRI to studying hearing in infants has revealed that response to sounds occurs at:

When Martha wants to feed her newborn son, she gently brushes her nipple against his cheek and he demonstrates a _____ reflex by turning his head toward the side that was touched and immediately latches on to her breast.

The ability to produce an endless number of meaningful sentences using a finite set of words and rules.

Infants begin to use gestures such as showing and pointing at about:

Children who grow up in a deprived environment are likely to show:

Fransisco has learned to wave bye-bye and does so every chance he gets. Sometimes he starts waving bye-bye before the grown-ups' conversation is finished, but everyone just laughs and waves with him. He is demonstrating that he is learning to use _____ to communicate.

Child-directed speech is the:

Baby Jane, three days old, is shown four drawings: a bright blue square, a white oval, a yellow circle, and a drawing of a face. Consistent with Fantz's work, which drawing would she probably prefer to look at?

By two years of age, children have reached about _____ of their adult weight and about _____ of their adult height.

Briefly describe shaken baby syndrome and the likely perpetrators.