Exam 3: Prenatal Development and Birth

DeCasper and Spense (1986)wanted to find out if a fetus would prefer a story after birth if their mothers had read the story aloud to them when they were fetuses.What did they find?

The rapid increase in an infant's vocabulary starting at about 18 months of age is called

Memory without conscious recollection.This includes memories of skills and routine procedures (e.g.,crawling)that are performed automatically.

The interpretation of the information that has been sensed.

This linguist proposed that humans are biologically prewired to learn language.He 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.

This person has been described as "America's best-known pediatrician." He/she takes a family-centered approach to child development issues and communicates with parents in easy-to-understand ways.He/she founded the Child Development Unit at Boston Children's Hospital and created a widely used measure of a newborn's health and well being shortly after birth.

Heather crawls from her room into the hallway to look for her mother after she leaves.According to Jean Piaget,this shows that she is capable of

Mariah has brain damage in 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

The cerebral cortex plays a role in

A tiny gap that is found between two or more neurons is called a(n)

Which of the following statements is TRUE about the hemispheric specialization of speech in the cerebral cortex of the brain?

The areas of the frontal lobe that control the body's muscles.

Behaviorists believe that language is

The basic unit of sound in a language; the smallest unit of sound that affects meaning.

According to Jean Piaget,this is the first substage of sensorimotor thought.This substage is apparent at birth and lasts approximately 1 month.Sensation and action are coordinated primarily through reflexive behaviors.

List at least five risk factors that are associated with the likelihood of an infant dying from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

What has the most recent (2007)research found relative to newborns and pain?

Brian is brought into the emergency room by his parents.The doctor examines Brian and concludes that in view of the swelling and hemorrhaging of his brain,it is likely that Brian has

Adjusting to new environmental demands is called

Jeff has just turned 2 years old.About how many words can he use?