Exam 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

Three-year-old Jesse used to call all moving vehicles "car." He now accurately categorizes moving vehicles into trucks, cars, motorcycles, and buses. Jesse has _____ to fit new information into his existing scheme.

The experience of our world as a smooth, unitary episode is made possible by intermodal:

The part of the neuron that carries signals away from the cell body.

Someone with a vocabulary of only 200 words can recombine the words in different ways to say thousands of different things. This aspect of language is referred to as:

Kyle and Amy want their baby to walk early, so they take the baby's favorite toy and place it where the child cannot reach it from a crawling position. Kyle and Amy believe that this will motivate the baby to stand upright to retrieve the toy and will thus result in him walking sooner. Their belief is most consistent with the _____ systems view of development.

Distinguish between explicit memory and implicit memory, and give an example of each.

A nerve cell that handles information processing in the brain.

Infants would nearly have tripled their birth weight by the age of:

For years, debate has focused on whether breast-feeding is better for the infant than bottle-feeding. The growing consensus is that:

In which of the following circumstances should the mother NOT breast feed her baby?

The fiber that carries signals toward the neuron's cell body is called a(n):

Define gross and fine motor skills, and give an example of each.

Child-directed speech is the:

Heather is shown a teddy bear. The teddy bear is then hidden from her. Heather searches for the teddy bear. This shows that Heather has developed a sense of _____.

List five benefits of breast feeding for the child.

Jean Piaget believed that children's thinking in one stage is _____ that in another stage.

Two-year-old Anita has learned the word "dog" to identify the family pet Rover. Now Anita says the word "dog" when she sees any animal. Anita has _____ these animals into her existing scheme.

Baby Kendra, who is 6 days old, is presented with two breast pads. One comes from her mother, and the other has not been used. Which one will Kendra probably prefer?

Juno is riding a bike. Riding a bike requires Juno to use her memories of skills and routine procedures that are performed automatically, referred to as her _____ memory.

Kyoko is 13 months old and can understand about 50 words but can say only about 10 words. This demonstrates how Kyoko's _____ vocabulary is more developed than her _____ vocabulary.