Exam 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

At age 4½,Michael Rehbein began to experience uncontrollable seizures.To stop this,doctors removed portions of the left hemisphere of his brain where the seizures were occurring when he was 7 years old,and again when he was 10 years old.This case study has shown that the brain:

Someone with a vocabulary of only 200 words can still recombine the words in different ways to say thousands of different things.This aspect of language is referred to as:

All of the following are risk factors for SIDS,EXCEPT:

When children experience cognitive conflict in trying to understand the world,they shift from one stage of thought to next.The mechanism through which this shift occurs is called:

This theorist developed a well-respected theory of cognitive development.This theorist suggested that development was universal and occurred in a fixed stage like sequence.He proposed that infants were in the stage of "sensorimotor development."

Jean Piaget's concept of grouping isolated behaviors into a higher-order cognitive system.

Whenever Dakota sees a baseball cap,he says,"hat," but he does not say it when he sees a stocking cap.This is an example of:

The ecological view of perception states that perception:

A form of communication that is based on a system of symbols is called:

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

Kyoko is 13 months old and can understand about 50 words but can say only about 10 words.Kyoko's __________ vocabulary is more developed than her __________ vocabulary.

According to Jean Piaget,the process by which children use their existing schemes to deal with new experiences.New information is incorporated into existing schemes.

List at least five benefits of breast-feeding.

This theorist is renowned for using the "visual cliff" to study vision in infants.

Both children and adults speak to babies in a special way.Give at least four examples of child-directed speech and other language strategies that people use with babies.

Mandy watches as another little girl in the grocery store throws a screaming tantrum to get a toy.The next week at the mall,Mandy begins screaming and crying to get some candy.Mandy is showing:

The __________ has the most prolonged development of any region of the brain.

The average American newborn is __________ long and weighs _________.

Memory without conscious recollection.This includes memories of skills and routine procedures (e.g. ,crawling)that are performed automatically.

Renée Baillargeon and her colleagues have found that infants display object permanence as early as age __________ month(s).