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

Bongi and Keitumetse are expecting a baby girl, and are shopping for decorations for the nursery. Keitumetse is concerned about making sure that they buy coloured decorations that will stimulate their newborn daughter's

Synaptic pruning significantly increases the number of neural connections in the brain.

Dr Sithole has completed an Apgar assessment of newborn baby boy Neo. Neo's father is informed by Dr Sithole that the Apgar assessment score is a 7. As a person who understands the scoring system, he would most probably

Between the ages of two and five, children develop a theory of mind; however, many children with autism spectrum disorder may be experiencing mindblindness.

Lethabo works with people who have suffered brain damage, helping them as they try to use different areas of the brain to perform the functions previously performed by the now-damaged areas. Lethabo's specialty would be best described as

Maria is a typical healthy one-year-old who weighs 11 kilograms. Which is the best estimate of her birth weight?

Of all the senses, the sense of smell is probably the least developed in infants.

The debate between bottle-feeding and breastfeeding has raged for decades. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each of the options.

If Thandi is a proponent of dynamic systems theory, then you know that she is most interested in

UNICEF, WHO, and The World Bank (2016) collectively estimate that about one in ____ children under age five suffers from malnutrition.

Lineo perceives the car to be far away because the sides of the road upon which it is moving seem to come together to be no wider than the car itself. This is an example of the ____ cue to depth.

Dr Mkhize is measuring the point at which an infant can no longer differentiate between a striped-patterned stimulus and a grey square. Dr Mkhize is probably attempting to measure the infant's

Compare and contrast the Babinski and Moro reflexive responses.

Prior to birth, all ____ layers of the major brain are formed.

Pain cries can usually be differentiated from basic or mad cries by their

Describe the notion of intersensory redundancy. How might knowledge of this be useful to the parent of a new infant?

The Babinski reflex is evidence that infants

Two-month-old Blessing does not exhibit the Moro reflex. What kind of problem will he most likely exhibit?

Which is considered a pictorial cue to depth?

A visual cliff is designed to assess