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

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

When Sheila uses motion to determine the depth of an object, she is using a ____ cue.

Breast-fed babies are ill less often than bottle-fed babies.

Which statement regarding temperament is false ?

Lotte is recovering from a serious accident that damaged her frontal cortex. Which outcome is most likely?

Evan is a normal subject in a self-awareness study who has just begun to recognize himself in mirrors and pictures. It is most likely that Evan is about ____ old.

The best description of neural development is that

After a one-year checkup, your physician comments, "There has been virtually no development of the cones in your daughter's visual system." What impact would this have?

What response would you expect if you attempted to hand toys to a typical 13-month-old infant?

Traditional eye tests in which a person is shown a chart with a set of letters in a line that gets progressively smaller near the bottom of the chart are designed to directly assess

Even though he is only 20 days old, Cherokee appears to be very happy and vocal around other people. How would a theorist use the concept of temperament to explain his behavior?

A friend hears that you are in a developmental psychology course and asks you how long his newborn daughter is supposed to sleep. Being a very bright student, you would give the correct answer of,

Body size is the key determinate of malnutrition in infancy.

Transmitter is to receiver as

What part of a neuron contains the material necessary to keep it alive?

If you were to remove the top of an adult's skull, the first brain tissue you would see would be the

Stewart is a 10-year-old boy growing up in England, and Moe is a 10-year-old boy growing up in the United States. What difference in handedness would you expect?

_______________ cues are all ways in which depth perception is conveyed in drawings and other visual images.

Which is considered a pictorial cue to depth?

The image of a person is identical on the retinas of a child, whereas the image of a dog is much different on the left retina than it is on the right. This means that the child will perceive the