Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy

_____ are built-in reactions to stimuli; they govern the newborn's movements,which are automatic and beyond the newborn's control.

Winnie is considering the use of anesthesia during the circumcision of her newborn son.She wants to know if newborns can feel pain.What would you tell her?

Ingrid is getting ready to leave the hospital with her newborn and asks her doctor about SIDS.Her pediatrician suggests several things she can do to reduce the likelihood of SIDS in her infant.List five things that Ingrid can do to reduce the likelihood of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Nadine's doctor is assessing her fine motor skills.This means that her doctor is going to look at her ability to:

_____ 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.

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

Which of the following statements is true about SIDS?

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.

The interpretation of sensory information is called:

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

Fourteen-year-old Michael Rehbein had the left hemisphere of his brain removed to end uncontrollable seizures.His right hemisphere gradually began to reorganize and take over functions that normally occur in the brain's left hemisphere.This case study is cited in the chapter in order to demonstrate that:

Which of the following statements about reflexes is true?

The fiber that carries signals toward the neuron's cell body is called a(n):

John believes that his six month old,Ali,was born with the ability to perceive the world in an organized way.In the field of perceptual development John would be described as a(n):

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

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?

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

Your ability to see faces and patterns with the right hemisphere of the brain and understand language with the left hemisphere is due to _____.

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