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

Felicia and Patty are thrilled that their baby daughter has recently learned to sit up by herself without assistance or support. According to your textbook, about how old is their daughter?

Infants typically double their weight by their third month, and triple it by their first birthday.

By the time a baby reaches his first birthday, he will spend about 25% of its sleep time in _______________ sleep, which is similar to sleep patterns of an adult.

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

Despite widespread, culturally-appropriate efforts to educate new parents about the safest position for their babies to sleep in, ____ infants still had the highest incidence of SIDS-related deaths.

All EXCEPT which of the following would you expect a child to list when you asked them to describe themselves?

Describe how developmental psychologists determine whether infants have a sense of self. Then discuss how the "theory of mind" is related to one's sense of self. Finally, discuss how theory of mind may be involved in those who suffer from autism spectrum disorder.

When an object gets closer to you, the image of that object projected onto your left and right retinas moves farther apart. Conversely, as an object moves farther away, the image on your retinas gets closer together. The ability to determine distance based on this change in retinal projection is called retinal ____.

Through the first 12 months of life, infants have a very general prototype for a face that is fine tuned to be more consistent with familiar faces between 12 and 24 months of age.

Marla has recently given birth to a beautiful, healthy baby. She is wrestling with the decision as to whether she should breastfeed or bottle-feed the child. What would you tell her if you were going to advocate strongly for the breastfeeding option?

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

If you were to follow the advice of your authors, which of the following articles of clothing would you avoid giving to a two- or three-year-old child?

The brain and spinal cord of a baby begin as a(n)

With regard to the ability to see colors, newborns

The four areas included in the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale are autonomic, motor, state, and social systems.

Who is at greatest risk of falling victim to sudden infant death syndrome?

Which of the following tools is an indirect method of testing a baby's awareness of his/her own existence?

If an infant is in a state of _______________, her eyes will be open but unfocused, and her arms and legs will move in bursts of uncoordinated motion.

The ____ scale is to the physical health of a newborn child as the ____ scale is to a comprehensive evaluation of children from birth through two years of age.

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. At what age would we expect her to reach up and touch her own nose instead of reaching for the nose in the reflection?