Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

Which statement about individual and group differences in physical growth is true?

Between birth and 2 years,__________.

Among the __________,babies hold their heads up,sit alone,and walk considerably earlier than North American infants.

A baby's ability to manipulate objects greatly expands with the development of __________,use of the thumb and index finger opposably.

Which of the following is an example of a fine-motor skill?

Yokow gets just enough calories from starchy foods,but his diet is very low in protein.He has an enlarged belly,swollen feet,and a rash on his skin.Yokow probably suffers from __________.

Training infants with letter and number flash cards,as well as educational tablet applications,__________.

Of all motor skills,__________ may play the greatest role in infant cognitive development.

According to the __________ of motor development,mastery of motor skills involves acquiring increasingly complex systems of action.

Which statement about brain development is true?

A general principle,called __________,explains early pattern preferences.

During the prenatal period,the neural tube __________.

In the first few years of life,the brain is __________.

During infancy,__________.These sex differences will __________ during adolescence.

Define gross-motor and fine-motor development and give examples of each.How do researchers today view the sequence of motor development?

Four-month-old Logan's parents are tracking his motor development.Which motor skill is Logan likely to have already achieved?

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 __________.

About half the brain's volume is made up of __________ cells.

One way of understanding perceptual development is to think of it as a built-in tendency to seek __________.

Gross-motor development has to do with control over __________.