Exam 4: Physical, Sensory, and Perceptual Development in Infancy

Which of the following interventions helps facilitate more rapid growth and development in preterm infants by providing skin-to-skin contact between the parent and child?

Because infants' brains have a high degree of plasticity, they are not as vulnerable to environmental influences.

Three-year-old Hannah says to her mother "Look, Mom, the railroad lines are getting closer together as they get farther away." This can be explained by a monocular cue called

Post-term babies have higher rates of fetal and neonatal mortalities.

It is important to reduce the rate of post-term deliveries because

What is the process in neuronal development in which a sheath covers individual axons and electrically insulates them from one another to improve the conductivity of the nerve?

Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement about female/male differences in physical development in infancy?

Newborns are able to discriminate between individual voices.

The brain processes of pruning and myelinization continue until adolescence.

Sucking, swallowing, pupil dilation, and grasping are all examples of

Higher rates of infant mortality are associated with

Although hearing improves up to adolescence, babies are born with better auditory acuity than visual acuity.

Normal visual acuity in adults is 20/20; infants are not that far off with 20/40 vision.

Researchers from Canada have found that supplying vitamin A to young children living in at-risk countries decreases the mortality rates of those children.

At birth, the neonate is blind.

Which of the following abilities does a neonate have?

The ability of the brain to reorganize brain structures in response to experience is called

It is important to teach infants how to sleep through the night as soon as possible.

One precaution that a parent can take to reduce the risk of SIDS is

Theorists who argue that perceptual abilities are learned are called