Exam 5: Infancy

__________ is the primary process during Vygotsky's second stage of language acquisition.

If 1-month-old Elaina had been one of the children who participated in Robert Fantz's experiment on visual preference, which of the following items would she like the least?

Isaac would like to work, but his six-month-old daughter, Savannah, whimpers when he puts her down. So, he holds her in his lap while he sits at his computer and plays with her fingers. Savannah relaxes and giggles. Isaac is demonstrating:

If Addison is like most mothers in the United States, she will be encouraged by her physician to breastfeed her infant for:

Lucie is holding her newborn. Lucie wants to make sure her baby has sufficient visual stimulation to develop normally. What could you tell Lucie?

Proximodistal development refers to development that proceeds from:

Christy is eleven months old. She has mastered the ability to run and often challenges her beleaguered parents to impromptu dashes toward whatever happens to catch her eye. Developmentally speaking, Christy is:

A 12-month-old child sitting in a high chair and repeatedly banging a spoon on the tray would be exhibiting what Piaget termed:

In the __________ stage of separation, the child cries loudly, is restless, and rejects all adult figures.

The best way to maintain goodness of fit in a child-parent relationship is for the parents to:

Stage 4 of the sensorimotor period occurs during:

__________ attached children are anxious before their parent leaves, intensely distressed when they leave but do not allow the parent to console them upon their return.

Chess and Thomas characterized children as having an easy temperament if they exhibited:

The technique that can predict behavior problems in toddlers most accurately is:

According to Piaget, the dominant behavior seen in Stage 1 of the sensorimotor period is:

What is the correct sequence of behaviors, as seen in Bowlby's work, when children who have good relationships with their mothers are separated from them?

Smiling by infants and their caregivers is a good example of:

__________ causes of failure to thrive are poverty, neglect, abuse and parental ignorance.

Shaoqiang's parents are happy that he is healthy and fits into the typical weight and size of newborns. How long is Shaoqiang?

To aid in the prevention of SIDS, parents are encouraged to: