Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Newborns are able to distinguish among colors.

An infant's auditory capacity is shown by the fact that newborns ______.

A researcher knows that an infant experienced dishabituation if the infant ______.

Habituation indicates that an infant detects a change in one stimulus from another stimulus.

Which cortex is least likely to show a peak in synaptogenesis in the first year of life?

Infants typically eat their first solid food at the age of ______.

What age do infants typically double their birth weight?

In the United States and the UK, most likely to breast-feed are mothers who ______.

Which growth pattern explains why an infant's head at birth is one fourth the total body length?

Andrew, a 3-month-old baby, is participating in an experiment using the visual cliff. When the researcher places him face down on the deep side, he quiets and his heart rate decreases. When he was placed on the shallow side of the cliff, his heart rate stayed at resting. Andrew reacted this way because he ______.

What is the developmental nature of brain structure as people age?

Which infant will require fewer trials pairing behavior and consequence in operant conditioning?

Voluntary reaching is an example of ______.

Which baby will habituate the fastest?

An infant's ability to imitate someone sticking out the tongue is a learned ability and unrelated to an innate ability.

When the brain depends on experiencing certain basic events and stimuli at key points in time in order to progress normally, it is called ______.

What is the first part of the body to show sensitivity to touch prenatally?

Newborns prefer to hear their native language.

Give two examples of influences on your own. experience-dependent brain development. Include why these are experience-dependent.

Which principle states that growth proceeds from the head downward?