Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy

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

The portion farthest from the spinal cord is known as the _____.

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.

The _____ lobes in the cerebral cortex function in vision.

A national study of more than 3,000 randomly selected 4- to 24-month-olds documented that:

Identify the nerve cell that handles information processing in the brain.

Neuroscientists believe that what wires the brain or rewires it after birth is:

_____ motor skills are skills that involve large-muscle activities,such as moving one's arms and walking.

Who is at the highest risk of SIDS?

Your professor says that our perception brings us into contact with the environment in order to interact with and adapt to it.This indicates that he holds a(n)_____ view on perceptual development.

When Martha wants to feed her newborn son,she gently brushes her nipple against his cheek and,in a _____ reflex,he turns his head toward the side that was touched and immediately latches on to her breast.

List five benefits that a child receives from breast feeding.

Yasmine was born in Honduras,and has a medical condition that causes her vital organs to collect the nutrients that are present and deprive other parts of the body of them.This condition,known as _____,often has the telltale sign of a greatly expanded abdomen.

Baby Max watches his mother jingle her keys in front of him.After several minutes,he looks away no longer interested.This would indicate that he is habituated to it and is showing a(n)_____ to the stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus.

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

Which of the following statements about infants and REM sleep is TRUE?

Identify the researcher that carefully observed and documented the development of motor skills in the 1930s.Based on this work,he/she concluded that motor development is entirely due to maturation.

Identify the theorist who developed and used the "looking chamber" to study the vision of infants in the early 1960s.

_____ is the recognition that an object remains the same even though the retinal image of the object changes as you move toward or away from the object.

Provide three examples where a doctor would advise a mother to NOT to breast feed their infants.