Exam 3: Tools for Exploring the World: Physical, Perceptual, and Motor Development in Infancy and Early Childhood.

A typical three-month old child would view a reflection of himself in the mirror as a very interesting stimulus, but would not recognize it to be a visual depiction of himself.

Imagine that you are standing on a pair of railroad tracks. As you look down at your feet, the tracks look a certain distance apart. As you lift your head and watch the tracks move away from you, they appear to get closer together until they converge at the farthest point. This bit of visual trickery is called

Paula is a developmentalist who believes that learning to walk involves many distinct skills that are organized and reorganized over time to meet a specific goal. Clearly, Paula is a proponent of the _______________ theory.

Why is it important for a newborn baby's reflexes to be assessed both at birth and at regular intervals as they age?

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

Retinal disparity and motion parallax are both examples of pictorial cues for depth perception.

Xavier wants to see if his daughter knows that she exists. While he is wiping her face, he puts a red dot on her nose and then shows her own reflection in a mirror. If she is aware of her own existence, what would we expect her to do when she sees her red nose?

A child's ability to use language that indicates an awareness of the difference between their physical and mental selves shows that they have developed a(n) _______________.

From birth, infants will grasp objects using their fingers and thumbs.

Which of the following children would be described as being of "average" height and weight at birth?

With regard to the sense of smell of a newborn baby, which of the following statements is the MOST accurate?

Mariposa just called out to her son Lou by saying his name to him. Lou just turned and looked in his mother's direction, demonstrating recognition of his own name. How old would you say that Lou must be?

The newborn is to sleeping ____ hours at a time as the six-month old is to sleeping ____ hours at night.

The newborn state of ____ is defined as a period where the baby's eyes are open but they seem unfocused, and its arms and legs move in bursts of uncoordinated motions.

According to your textbook, approximately one in every ____ children born in the United States will one day be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

Your personality and your ability to make and carry out plans are all controlled by the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex.

Two-month-old Sheldon is snuggled in his mother's arms. He is quietly looking around, and appears to be simply 'absorbing' his environment. He is attentive to sounds around him, and is very calm. Sheldon's current state would be described as

You are looking out into your yard at a beautiful Japanese maple tree. You notice the tree has many branches with lovely purple leaves on them. The leaves are capturing raindrops from the current storm. If this tree were actually a neuron, the leaves that capture incoming information would be the ________.

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

Between the ages of two and five, children develop a theory of ____, which refers to a naïve understanding of the relationship between thoughts and behaviors.​