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

In an effort to lower the age at which his infant son will begin to walk, Mr. Simmons puts eight-month-old Richard on a program that emphasizes leg strength. What is the most likely outcome of this intervention?

Amanda's baby is awake and squirming around, oblivious to anything happening around her. Amanda's baby is most likely in the ____ state.

The early, unsteady form of walking is called _____.

Which one-year-old would not be able to utilize retinal disparity to perceive depth?

Molly is buying decorations for her child's nursery. She is very concerned about having different colors that the baby will be able to differentiate the day she is born. Molly is attempting to stimulate her child's

Adults tend to be able to hear _____ sounds better than infants.

The fact that an infant's perception of a stimulus is best if it stimulates more than one sense simultaneously is best described as

Which best exemplifies experience-expectant growth?

How would 12-month-old Cassie locomote?

Which statement concerning culture and crawling is true?

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

Which statement concerning co-sleeping is accurate?

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

Experience does not influence brain development.

During an experiment, you record the brain activity of a child using an EEG. As a result of reading your text, you would predict that the left hemisphere would exhibit the most electrical activity when the child is

_____ refers to the extent to which brain organization is flexible.

The Babinski reflex is evidence that infants

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

Studies of infant stepping behavior on a treadmill demonstrated that

Reflexes are learned responses.