Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy

Which of the following is true?

Clara just recently started walking,according to research,we would also expect her to:

Gustavo believes that motor skills represent solutions to the infant's goals.So when you offer a new toy to a baby,the baby attempts to grab the toy while also balancing itself.This active improvisation and adaptation to achieve one's goal demonstrates that nature,nurture,the infant,and the environment are all working together.Gustavo is a proponent of which theory?

Which of the following methods is often used by researchers to assess an infant's attention to sound?

Identify the theorist who believed that infants assemble motor skills for perceiving and acting.He/she proposed the dynamic systems theory to explain these findings.

Pedro is two years of age.His parents take him to the doctor because he has swelling in his feet and abdomen,and has brittle hair.His doctor tells his parents that he has a condition known as _____,which is caused by severe protein deficiency.

Which of the following statements is TRUE about an infant's color vision?

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.

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

How is sleep in infancy linked to cognitive development?

In the cerebral cortex,the _____ lobe is involved in voluntary movement,thinking,personality,and intentionality or purpose.

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.

_____ occurs when information interacts with sensory receptors-the eyes,ears,tongue,nostrils,and skin.

Similar to the epigenetic view,the _____ view emphasizes the importance of interactions between experience and gene expression in the brain's development.

Six-month-old Carson grabs for a toy using his whole hand.He is demonstrating a:

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

Kyle and Amy want their baby to walk early,so they take the baby's favorite toy and place it where the child cannot reach it from a crawling position.Kyle and Amy believe that this will motivate the baby to stand upright to retrieve the toy and will,thus,result in him walking sooner.Their belief is most consistent with the _____ systems view of development.

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

Approximately how many infants die annually in the United States from SIDS?

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