Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy

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 "_____".

In which of the following circumstances is it recommended that a mother NOT breast feed?

Which of the following statements is true about specialization of function in a hemisphere of the cerebral cortex?

Which of the following conditions is the highest cause of infant death in the United States,with nearly 3,000 infant deaths annually attributed to it?

The peak of synaptic overproduction in the _____ takes place at around one year of age.

Most neuroscientists agree that complex functions such as reading or performing music involve:

The _____ lobe area in the cerebral cortex plays an important role in registering spatial location and motor control.

Sheena would like to hang a picture above her baby's crib.Which of the following is likely to attract the most attention from the infant?

The _____ includes the cerebral cortex and several structures beneath it.

Ursula has just had a baby and is considering bottle feeding her as she plans to return to work very soon.However,she is worried that she will be unable to form a strong attachment with her baby if she does not breast feed her.Based on recent research,what would you,as her doctor,tell her?

Perceptual constancy is reflected when:

The developmentalist who believed that motor skills development comes about through maturation is:

The experience of our world as a smooth,unitary episode is made possible by intermodal:

Which of the following technologies,a measure of the brain's electrical activity,have researchers been able to use successfully to learn about the brain's development in infancy?

The frontal lobes are _____ in the newborn.

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

Which of the following statements is TRUE about perception in infants?

Identify the sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top-the head-with physical growth in size,weight,and feature differentiation gradually working from top to bottom.

The "visual cliff" experiment was used to measure:

_____ is a dynamic process that is linked with sensory information in the skin,joints,and muscles,which tell us where we are in space; in vestibular organs in the inner ear that regulate balance and equilibrium; and in vision and hearing.