Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy and Toddlerhood

As early as 3 months,infants prefer and more easily discriminate among __________ faces than among __________ faces.

Pound for pound,an infant's energy needs are __________ those of an adult.

Research suggests that there is a sensitive period,__________,when babies are biologically prepared to "zero in" on socially meaningful perceptual distinctions.

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

Newborn Jaxson makes poorly coordinated swipes toward his toy giraffe.Jaxson is using __________.

Regina and Cassie adopted Chelsea from an orphanage in Argentina.Three years after her adoption,Chelsea displays abnormally low cortisol.This is a sign of __________.

Rachel is concerned that she might accidentally suffocate her baby if she shares a bed with him.What information can you share with Rachel about precautions taken in cultures where cosleeping is widespread?

The __________ is responsible for the highly developed intelligence of the human species.

The best estimate of a child's physical maturity is __________.

Synapses __________.

__________ are responsible for myelination.

In the study of Romanian orphans adopted into British homes,children adopted __________ attained the highest mental test scores in childhood and adolescence.

__________ greatly influences the organization of the cerebral cortex.

Habituation and recovery make learning more efficient by __________.

The more rapidly 10-month-olds detect words within the speech stream,the __________ at age 2 years.

Newborn Farrah will probably look longer at __________ human and animal faces than __________ ones.

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

Jack and Jami are concerned that their chubby infant son Angus will become an overweight adult.A preventive step that they can take is to __________.

__________ is the norm for approximately 90 percent of the world's population.

Coating the neural fibers with an insulating fatty sheath during the process of __________ improves the efficiency of message transfer.