Exam 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

Baby Max watches his mother jingle her keys in front of him. After several minutes, he looks away no longer interested. This would indicate that he has habituated as he is showing a _____ to a stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus.

Infants control the muscles of their trunk and arms before they control their hands and fingers, and they use their whole hands before they can control several fingers. This indicates a _____ pattern of growth.

The sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top-the head-with physical growth in size, weight, and feature differentiation gradually working from top to bottom.

Identify the correct sequence of vocalization in infants.

Noam Chomsky said that children are born into the world with a _____, a biological endowment that enables the child to detect certain features and rules of language, including phonology, syntax, and semantics.

_____ occurs when children adjust their schemes to take new information and experiences into account.

Which of the following is a key criticism of Jean Piaget's theory of sensorimotor cognitive development?

As they walk in the park together, Damon's dad points out various objects to him-flowers, birds, butterflies, slides, swings, vehicles, and so on-and helps Damon name each of them. Damon's dad is using _____ to help his son learn language.

The cephalocaudal pattern is the sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the:

_____ refers to the process of encasing axons with fat cells.

_____ are built-in reactions to stimuli; they govern the newborn's movements, which are automatic and beyond the newborn's control.

A loss or impairment of language ability caused by brain injury is called _____.

What is the foundation needed for gross motor skills to develop?

A national study of more than 3,000 randomly selected 4- to 24-month-olds documented that:

This linguist proposed that humans are biologically prewired to learn language. He/she proposed that infants are born into the world with a language acquisition device that enables the child to detect certain features and rules of language.

Sarah shows her baby a colorful block several times. The baby looks carefully at the block, at first, but then turns her attention to a different toy after seeing the block a few times. The baby is showing _____.

When two individuals focus on the same object or event, it constitutes:

Sensitivity to taste:

Your professor says that our perception brings us into contact with the environment in order to interact with and adapt to it. This indicates that he holds a(n) _____ view on perceptual development.

The peak of synaptic overproduction in the _____ occurs at about the fourth postnatal month.