Exam 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

Classifying flowers into groups according to their color is an example of a:

The theory stating that we directly perceive information that exists in the world around us is:

How did Piaget define a scheme? What are the processes of assimilation and accommodation? How are they related to schemes?

Robert Fantz,during his work with infants in the "looking chamber," discovered that 2-day-old infants prefer to look at:

Shelly's parents are worried because their daughter is 5 months old and can sit but not on her own.A psychologist friend tells them that:

The increase in responsiveness to a stimulus after a change in stimulation.

Every time Margarita's mother leaves to go to work,Margarita waves to her.Margarita has begun to:

Jean Piaget believed that children's thinking in one stage is __________ that in another stage.

According to the work of Meltzoff,how much time can pass between when an infant observes an action and imitates it?

Baby Jane,3 days old,is shown four drawings.One is a bright blue square,one is a white oval,one is a drawing of a face,and the last is a black-and-white bull's-eye.In view of Fantz's work,which will she probably prefer to look at?

A nerve cell in the brain is also called a(n):

Cases such as the "Wild Boy of Aveyron" and "Genie" cause us to wonder whether language is:

List three situations in which mothers are advised NOT to breast-feed their infants.

Child-directed speech is the:

Your infant daughter requires surgery to correct a foot abnormality.Should she receive anesthesia?

Behaviorists believe that language is:

Germain says,"Ball fall." His father replies,"Yes,the ball fell down the stairs." This is an example of:

Research about the ability of infants to distinguish human speech sounds indicates that:

Tameka and Roy have just had a baby.Every night,their baby is up for several hours,and she often sleeps during the day.How long will these parents have to wait until their child has established a pattern of sleeping mostly at night?

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