Exam 5: Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Sharon's 46-year-old husband suffered a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident. What information about brain plasticity can you provide to Sharon?

As long as negative environmental influences such as poor nutrition or illness are not severe,

Newborn Will is likely to show greater activation in the left hemisphere while

What is lateralization of the brain, and why does it occur?

Color vision is adultlike by

For exploring the environment, humans depend on __________ more than any other sense.

Which of the following motor skills is believed to play the greatest role in infant cognitive development?

Classical conditioning

Five-month-old Raelle can be expected to __________ when an object is moved beyond her reach.

Which of the following responses is very difficult to classically condition in young babies?

In a large study of children with injuries to the cerebral cortex that occurred around the time of birth or in the first six months of life, researchers found that

Skeletal age is determined by __________ to see the extent to which soft, pliable cartilage has hardened into bone.

Which of the following statements about how infants perceive the structure of speech is true?

Explain dynamic systems theory of motor development.

Using examples from the text, explain how cultural variations in infant-rearing practices affect motor development.

In a face perception study involving both human and monkey pairs, 9-month-old infants

Throughout childhood and adolescence, girls

Breastfed babies in poverty-stricken regions of the world

__________ fire identically when a primate hears or sees an action and when it carries out that action on its own.

Between 3 and 5 months, babies can