Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

An infant or a toddler can grow up to one quarter of an inch overnight.

The definition of sensation is ______.

Which example is noninfluential towards experience-dependent brain development?

Which 1-year-old child is average height?

The ability to control the large movements of the body is called ______.

Small bursts of growth are associated with increased ______.

Brain development that occurs in response to learning is known as ______.

Approximately how many women continue to breast-feed their babies after 6 months?

Which domain of development is involved in motor skills?

Describe typical weight and height growth patterns of infants from birth to 3 years of age.

A contextual factor that has been shown to have little influence on motor development is ______.

Myelination contributes to advances in neural communication because myelin ______.

A child's brain reaches what percentage of its adult weight by 2 years of age?

Motor development is dependent upon both maturation and practice.

The newest perspective as to why infants refuse to crawl across the visual cliff is because infants ______.

The sense the brain makes of a stimulus and the accompanying awareness of it is called ______.

Olivia is an infant with parents who provide her with stimulating toys, read to her every day, and take her on walks where she can see, hear, smell, and touch various things in her environment. It is likely that Olivia's brain is experiencing ______.

What effects does sense of smell have on an infant?

The process of the hemispheres becoming specialized to carry out different functions is called ______.

Linn lives in Sweden where she receives paid maternity leave until her baby is 1 year old. A prediction about Linn's choice during this time is that she will most likely ______.