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

All but which of the following can be used to demonstrate the existence of a self-concept in children?

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

The debate about the value of breast-feeding versus bottle feeding is one of the most critical issues for new parents to explore. According to your chapter, breast-feeding is the more beneficial choice for all but which of the following reasons?

There are many jokes out there about the advantage that having opposable thumbs gives human beings over most animals. As your authors note, however, it is not until the age of ________ that children actually start to use their thumbs as part of the grasping process!

Which of the following is NOT used to help children with autism spectrum disorders lead satisfying and productive lives?

Which is considered a pictorial cue to depth?

Wendell can tell that the trees on the mountain are very far away, because rather than being able to see individual trees and the spaces between them, he just perceives a big green patch. Which depth cue best describes this?

When a baby is crying and is having difficult being soothed, many parents prefer to use a technique called _______. Seen in many cultures, including Turkey, Peru, and the United States, this method provides warmth and tactile stimulation that help to calm the baby.

Between the ages of ________, children develop a theory of mind, which refers to a naïve understanding of the relationship between thoughts and behaviors.

The stepping reflex is a precursor to walking.

If you want to make sure that your neurons can send neural messages at their very fastest speed, you would want to see that the neurons were surrounded by/wrapped in ________.

The visual ________ is an apparatus that was designed by Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk to assess depth perception in babies.

With regard to handedness, which of the following statements is the MOST accurate?

________ cues are to motion as visual ________ is to an object filling more of one's retina

Which of the following represents your authors' position regarding the visual system of a newborn?

By what age will children begin to understand and distinguish the physical world from the mental world?

A child's ability to move around in the world is referred to as ________.

From 1961 to 1989, the city of Berlin in Germany was separated into two halves by the Berlin Wall. When the wall came down, German citizens were then free to go back and forth between the two halves of the city as they pleased. Which of the following parts of your brain serves as a similar boundary between the two cerebral hemispheres?

Dennis is sitting on a train and is looking at the mountains in the distance. He suddenly becomes aware that the trees and signs that are very close to the tracks look as if they are moving by far more rapidly than the mountains that are several miles away. Those mountains look as if they are just crawling by. Dennis is currently using ________ to determine the distance of what he is seeing.

When an object gets closer to you, the image of that object projected onto your left and right retinas moves farther apart. Conversely, as an object moves farther away, the image on your retinas gets closer together. The ability to determine distance based on this change in retinal projection is called retinal ________.