Exam 3: Tools for Exploring the World: Physical, Perceptual, and Motor Development

Felicia and Patty are thrilled that their baby daughter has recently learned to sit up by herself without assistance. According to your textbook, about how old is their daughter?

Despite widespread efforts to educate new parents about the safest position for their babies to sleep in, ________ infants still had the highest incidence of SIDS-related deaths.

The process by which the brain receives, selects, modifies, and organizes incoming nerve impulses that are the result of physical stimulation is called perception.

A very funny saying goes like this: "Why do people say I slept like a baby when babies wake up every hour during the night." Aside from the chuckle you may have gotten, what would you say about this quip based on your reading of the textbook?

Which of the following is the MOST accurate statement regarding the "run" of a two-year-old child?

Most infants seem to have a "sweet tooth."

Your personality and your ability to make and carry out plans are all controlled by the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex.

Through the first 12 months of life, infants have a very general prototype for a face. Between 12 and 24 months of age, they fine tune that prototype to be more consistent with familiar faces in the child's environment.

A nursing one-month-old infant may grasp crudely at his mother's breast while feeding. That same child at the age of one year will probably easily hold a bottle or cup, placing it to his lips, and then putting it down when he is done. This change in ability to use the hands and fingers demonstrates advances in

________ is accepted as the best way to make sure a baby gets adequate nutrition and proper antibodies. It also helps prevent diarrhea and constipation which, in extreme cases, can be lethal.

Most babies would willingly cross the shallow side of a visual cliff, but would not cross the deep side.

According to ________ systems theory, learning to walk involves many distinct skills that are organized and reorganized over time to meet specific goals.

While observing brain activity, Dr. Smith proclaims, "This brain is definitely experiencing a downsizing in the number of connections between neurons." This indicates that the brain Dr. Smith is studying is undergoing

________ skills refer to coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs.

According to your textbook, which of the following themes do infants have the ability to attribute to people's behaviors?

A child's ability to use language that indicates an awareness of the difference between their physical and mental selves shows that they have developed a(n) ________.

The ________ appears when you stroke a child's foot and the toes fan outward.

A child's awareness of his/her own existence is usually well-established by the age of ________ years.

Which of the following children would be described as being of "average" height and weight at birth?

Which of the following individuals has the lowest risk of dying from SIDS?