Exam 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

Kevin loves to say, "Da, da, da, da" over and over again. This is an example of what type of communication?

As an infant, Mary suffered damage to _____ of the brain causing her to have poor comprehension. Also, her speech is fluent, but incomprehensible.

_____ occurs when information interacts with sensory receptors-the eyes, ears, tongue, nostrils, and skin.

As he is rolling his truck up and down the sides of the couch, Nezzy points to his truck and says, "My truck." His father responds with, "What's the truck doing?" This is an example of:

Infants can see objects before they can control their torso, and they can use their hands long before they can crawl or walk. This would indicate that they have a _____ pattern of growth.

In the first several days of life, most newborns lose _____ percent of their body weight before they adjust to feeding by sucking, swallowing, and digesting.

When babies engage in physical activity or use language, some synaptic connections will be strengthened, while the unused ones are replaced by other pathways or disappear. A neuroscientist would identify this process as "_____."

In the visual cliff experiment by Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk, most babies encouraged to crawl onto the deep side of the visual cliff would:

When Abraham describes to his friend what he did last summer on vacation, he is relying on his _____ memory.

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

The focusing of mental resources on select information is called _____.

When four-year old Melanie ties shoelaces on her own and skillfully uses fork and spoon, she is demonstrating her:

Reaching in four-month-old infants is guided by:

Jean Piaget's concept of grouping isolated behaviors into a higher-order system is called _____.

When children experience cognitive conflict in trying to understand the world, they shift from one stage of thought to the next. For example, experiencing conflict with peers may lead to an attempt to reduce conflict. The mechanism through which this shift occurs is called _____.

A(n) _____ is a layer of fat cells that encases and insulates many axons and helps electrical signals travel faster down the axon.

Your ability to process language in the left hemisphere and spatial thinking in the right hemisphere is due to _____.

Which of the following statements about perception in infants is true?

Chemical interactions between ____ connect axons and dendrites, allowing information to pass from neuron to neuron.

Mariah has suffered brain damage to the left frontal lobe of her brain. When she tries to speak, she struggles to produce words and is unable to say them correctly. Mariah has damage to: