Exam 4: Infancy

Which of the following is a risk factor for SIDS?

Which of the following describes the normal sequence of language development?

__________ is a known factor that increases the probability of SIDS.

Throughout history, various cultural groups have attempted to protect infants from disease and illness; however, they know very little of the true causes.As a common practice, many cultural groups developed __________.

When comparing cultures that use infant-directed (ID) speech to those that do not, it is clear that __________.

__________ describes when an infant who does not have any apparent illness or disease simply falls asleep and never wakes up.

Studies have shown that Chinese children who possess a higher degree of shyness are more likely __________.

The term developmentalists use to describe repetitive consonant-vowel combinations such as "ba-ba-ba" or "do-do-do" is __________.

__________ believed that human emotional expressions were part of a long evolutionary history.

Compared to other animals, the human brain is very large at birth, but it is also __________.

__________ is our awareness that objects continue to exist even when we are not in direct sensory or motor contact with them.

Give an example of how social referencing is adaptive for babies.

Cameron lives in the United States and takes her infant to the pediatrician's office, where she is advised to begin introducing solid foods.It is safe to assume that Cameron's daughter is close to __________.

An expression of happiness in response to interacting with others is called __________.

Which of the following is the most appropriate method to soothe an infant who is teething?

At what age can untrained listeners distinguish whether a recording of babbling is from an infant raised in an Arabic, Chinese, or French-speaking environment?

The _________ lobes are responsible for processing auditory information, including language.

As an infant's short-term and long-term memory improve, he or she should also get better __________.

At birth, the size of an infant's brain is __________% of an adult's brain, and by age 2 it is __________% of an adult's brain.

In 1956, Thomas and Chess proposed the concept of __________.