Exam 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

Jake,age 11 months,is able to pick up cereal and bits of fruit off the tray of his high chair by grasping them with his thumb and forefinger.Jake has developed the:

When an infant turns his head because his cheek was stroked,this is evidence that infants respond to:

The focusing of mental resources on select information is called:

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

The theorists who developed the ecological view of perceptual development in infancy are:

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:

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:

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

A nerve cell that handles information processing in the brain.

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

A condition that occurs when infants stop breathing,usually during the night,and die suddenly without an apparent cause.

For cognitive change to occur,these two processes must work in concert as the child experiences considerable movement between the states of cognitive equilibrium and disequilibrium.

The cerebral cortex has two _____,each of which is further divided into four _____.

When Alice speaks to her 6-month-old niece,her voice immediately takes on a higher pitch,her speech becomes slower,and she begins using more simplistic words and phrases.This change in Alice's language behavior provides an example of:

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:

By two years of age,children have reached about _____ of their adult weight and about _____ of their adult height.

Provide three examples where a doctor would advise a mother NOT to breast feed her infant.

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?

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

How would you connect the concepts of the overproduction of synaptic connections and their subsequent retraction,or pruning,with the nature-versus-nurture issue?