Exam 3: Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

This theorist has studied the ability of infants to imitate facial expressions.This theorist argues that infants' imitative abilities are biologically based,and the skill is apparent within the first few days after birth.

Mariah has brain damage in the left frontal lobe of her brain.When she tries to speak,she struggles to produce words and is unable to say them correctly.Mariah has damage to:

The rapid increase in an infant's vocabulary starting at about 18 months of age is called:

Tatsuya would like his daughter to grow up and develop to her full potential.He can do his part by:

Jean Piaget's concept of grouping isolated behaviors into a higher-order system is called:

A nerve cell that handles information processing in the brain.

Which of the following is MOST likely to be a child's first word?

A child's expansive vocabulary is directly correlated with his or her parents':

Tiny gaps found between two or more neurons.

What is thought to influence the overproduction and pruning of synapses in the brain?

A reflex that occurs in response to a sudden,intense noise or movement.The newborn arches her/his back,throws back her/his head,and flings out her/his arms and legs.Then the newborn rapidly closes its arms and legs to the center of the body.

Brian is brought into the emergency room by his parents.The doctor examines Brian and concludes that in view of the swelling and hemorrhaging of his brain,it is likely that Brian has:

Baby Melissa has developed a sucking scheme.She learned that to get food,she must suck on her mother's breast.Now her mother has begun to introduce solid foods with a spoon.Melissa immediately sucks on the spoon.This is an example of:

According to Jean Piaget,actions or mental representations that organize knowledge.

Research on the ability of infants to recognize language sounds indicates that until the age of:

Diane notices that sudden stimulation causes her 2-month-old to arch his back,throw back his head,fling out his arms and legs,and then rapidly close them to the center of his body.Diane's baby is exhibiting the __________ reflex.

In the visual cliff experiment by Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk (1960),most babies encouraged to crawl onto the deep side of the visual cliff would:

Long vowel sounds (e.g. ,oooh,aaaah)that babies make at about 1 to 2 months of age.They are usually gurgling sounds that are made in the back of the throat and express pleasure.

List at least five risk factors that are associated with the likelihood of an infant dying from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Most adults remember little or nothing from the first 3 years of their own life.This is called ___.