Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy

Whenever baby Beth hears a loud noise,she responds with a _____ reflex,where she arches her back,throws back her head,flings out her arms and legs,and then rapidly closes her arms and legs.

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

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

Infants usually double their birth weight by the age of:

Which of the following statements is true about the involvement of left and right hemispheres in performing different functions?

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

Which of the following is involved in providing energy to neurons and aids communication?

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.

Children with _____ sometimes appear to be well fed even though they are not because the disease can cause the child's abdomen and feet to swell with water.

For years,debate has focused on whether breast-feeding is better for the infant than bottle-feeding.The growing consensus is that:

Caleb is 14 months old.Which of the following activities would you expect that Caleb might be able to do?

Identify the theorists who are renowned for using the "visual cliff" to study the vision of infants.

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

_____ are tiny gaps,or junctions,between neurons' fibers.

Developmentalist Arnold Gesell proposed that motor development comes about through:

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:

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:

Bo,two months old,weighs 10 pounds.His father wants to know how many calories he should be consuming every day.What would you tell him?

Briefly explain the cephalocaudal and proximodistal patterns of development.Provide an example of each type of pattern.

In the Gibsons' view,objects have _____,which are opportunities for interaction offered by objects that fit within our capabilities to perform activities.