Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Explain the differences between the tests for visual acuity and depth perception.

If children live in an environment that has dangers on the ground, the result may be caregivers who ______.

What effects does touch have on an infant?

Vaccines are administered early in life because many preventable diseases are more common in infants and young children.

Humans demonstrate habituation as early as ______.

The evolutionary development of social communication is related to infants' ability to ______.

Which method would a researcher use to study depth perception?

Rapid, excessive weight gain in infancy is associated with ______.

Maggie is an infant who has a mother that is very concerned about her motor development because she was born premature. To make sure Maggie rolls over and crawls when she should, the pediatrician recommendation that Maggie spends time ______.

Preferential-looking studies show that infants reach adult levels of visual acuity between what ages?

The physical structure of the brain changes very little from infancy.

A researcher would examine experience-expectant brain development by ______.

A sign that indicates infants begin the process of learning language at birth is that newborns ______.

The ability to perceive the distance of objects from each other and from self is called ______.

If infants smell something rancid, their facial expressions are likely to indicate ______.

After birth, which part of the body grows first using the proximodistal growth principle?

Which type of brain development depends on contextual and cultural circumstances of a child's life?

What behavior is newborn Conroy exhibiting if he stops being startled every time the family dog barks?

What age do children reach one half of their adult height?

Which statement describes a factor involved in hemispheric dominance?