Exam 3: Prenatal Development and Birth

A reflex that occurs when the infant's cheek is stroked.The infant turns his/her head toward the side that was touched in an apparent effort to find something to suck.

Robert Fantz,during his work with infants in the "looking chamber," discovered that 2-day-old infants prefer to look at

List (in order)Jean Piaget's six substages of sensorimotor thought.

What makes one stage more advanced than another in Jean Piaget's theory?

Damon asks his son to look at a picture book and name the objects he sees.Damon is using __________ to help his son learn language.

Two-month-old Antonio is listening as his mother sings him a lullaby.He is making a gurgling sound and seems very happy.Antonio is

__________ is an area in the left frontal lobe of the brain that is involved in speech production.

Define deferred imitation,explicit memory,and implicit memory.Give an example of each.

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

Axon is to __________as dendrite is to __________.

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

Every time Margarita's mother leaves to go to work,Margarita waves to her.Margarita has begun to

In which sensorimotor substage do an infant's actions become more object-oriented?

Classifying flowers into groups according to their color is an example of a

Rachel Clifton and her colleagues (1993)demonstrated that reaching in 4-month-old infants is guided by

Germain says,"Ball fall." His father replies,"Yes,the ball fell down the stairs." This is an example of

The theory that states that we directly perceive information that exists in the world around us is

Marty is developing rapidly in her size and abilities to sit and stand.Many of the reflexes with which she was born are fading,but she is not yet able to climb or ride on riding toys.Marty is probably in the __________ of life.

Shelly's parents are worried because their daughter is 5 months old and can sit but not on her own.A psychologist friend tells them that

According to Jean Piaget,the process by which children use their existing schemes to deal with new experiences.New information is incorporated into existing schemes.