Exam 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

A chemical that is contained at the end of the axon whose purpose is to pass information on to another neuron is called a(n):

The focusing of mental resources on select information is called:

The "visual cliff" is used to measure:

__________ is an area in the left frontal lobe of the brain that is involved in speech production.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A tiny gap that is found between two or more neurons is called a(n):

Two-year-old Anita has learned the word "dog" to identify the family pet Rover.Now Anita says the word "dog" when she sees any animal.Anita has __________ these animals into her existing scheme.

Memory of facts and experiences that individuals consciously know and can state (e.g. ,the capital of the United States).

Jerome weighed in at 12 pounds when he was born.Compared to other newborns (in the United States),he is:

Dr.Dzindolet would like to know whether children born prematurely can tell the difference between a face and a spiral.What method would best suit this experiment?

Chemicals contained at the end of the axon that pass information to another neuron.

What has the most recent (2007)research found relative to newborns and pain?

DeCasper and Spense (1986)wanted to find out if babies would prefer a story after birth if their mothers had read the story aloud to them when they were fetuses.What did they find?

Infants begin to communicate at:

The rooting reflex is to __________ as the Moro reflex is to _________.

Built-in reactions to stimuli that govern an infant's actions are known as:

Heather crawls from her room into the hallway to look for her mother after she leaves.According to Jean Piaget,this shows that she is capable of:

What is the name of the fatty substance that speeds up transmission of impulses and surrounds the axon of a neuron?

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.

Babbling,crying,cooing,first word,and gestures are forms of communication that emerge in a fixed sequence during the first year and a half of life.In the table below (a)provide the correct order of this developmental progression,and (b)state the approximate ages at which these language skills emerge.