Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy

_____ 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.

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

A message in the brain is "ferried" across the synapse by a _____,which pours out information contained in chemicals when it crosses the synapses.

Which of the following information about breast feeding is NOT true?

List five benefits that a child receives from breast feeding.

The most common infant sleep-related problem reported by parents is _____.

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 view of development that sees motor skills developing as a solution to an infant's problems is known as the _____ systems theory.

Which of the following statements about perceptual-motor coupling in infants is TRUE?

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.

Infant nighttime waking problems have consistently been linked to:

Identify the part of the neuron that carries signals away from the cell body.

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 evolutionary perspective states that the need for sleep developed because animals needed to sleep to:

Which of the following statements is TRUE of how neurons change in the first years of life?

The adult density of synapses in the prefrontal cortex is achieved in:

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

The _____ is the area of the brain where higher-level thinking and self-regulation occur.

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.

Infants would nearly have tripled their birth weight by the age of: