Exam 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

Give three effective strategies that parents can use to facilitate their children's language development and give an example for each description.

At the end of the axon are terminal buttons, which release chemicals called _____ into synapses.

A loss or impairment of language ability caused by brain injury is called:

When Alice speaks to her six-month-old niece, her voice immediately takes on a higher pitch, her speech becomes slower, and she begins using more simplistic words and phrases. This change in Alice's language behavior provides an example of:

The experience of our world as a smooth, unitary episode is made possible by:

The _____ view emphasizes the importance of interactions between experience and gene expression in the brain's development.

Research by Renée Baillargeon and her colleagues have found that infants as young as three to four months expect objects to be _____ in the sense that other objects cannot move through them, and _____ in the sense that objects continue to exist when they are hidden.

Griffin noticed her newborn was learning to move her arms and legs by swinging them around and slowly learning how to move them deliberately. Her daughter is developing _____ motor skills.

The Piagetian understanding that objects and events continue to exist, even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched.

By the second birthday, a toddler's brain is about _____ of its adult weight.

Of the following infants, who is MOST at risk for SIDS?

Which of the following is a key criticism of Piaget's theory of sensorimotor cognitive development?

Myelination for _____ pathways occurs rapidly after birth and is completed in the first six months.

Sensitivity to taste:

The part of the neuron that carries signals away from the cell body.

The cephalocaudal pattern is the sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the:

Your professor says that our perception brings us into contact with the environment in order to interact with and adapt to it, such as when you turn your body to get into a car or turn your head to see where a sound is coming from. This indicates that he holds a(n) _____ view on perceptual development.

Which of the following conditions is one of the highest causes of infant death in the United States with nearly 2,000 infant deaths annually attributed to it?

The interactionist view of language development emphasizes that:

Long before infants speak recognizable words, they produce a number of vocalizations. Describe some of these vocalizations in the order that they appear in infants.