Exam 4: Infancy and Toddlerhood: Physical, Cognitive, and Language Development

The Neonatal Behavioral Observation system is used to assess which of the following?

If a researcher is studying the "other race" effect, the research findings would suggest that:

The basic sounds in a language are referred to as:

At birth, the newborn's ability to see colors is equal to that of an adult.

Frank argues that early experiences are very important because these "early lessons" shape the way the brain develops. Frank's view that experience influences brain development is the central idea behind the concept of:

According to research presented in the text,, about what percent of infants in low-income families in the U.S. suffer from iron deficiency anemia?

According to the text, neurons in a newborn's brain have on average about __________ synapses. By age 2 or 3, the number is about __________ synapses.

Twenty-month-old Hannah pretended to drive a car by sitting in a clothes basket and making steering motions with her hands. Her behavior is best considered an example of:

Generalizing from the text's discussion of malnutrition, you should conclude the most detrimental effect of starvation or severe malnutrition is on which of the following organs or organ systems?

Scientists currently are speculating that defects in the mirror neuron system may be implicated in which of the following disorders:

The Newborn Behavioral Observation system is usually used to assess the health of a newborn child.

Mirror neurons respond in the same way to performing an action as to watching that action he performed by others.

When a child says something like "I have two foots" (rather than feet), this is called telegraphic speech.

Several world health organizations and the Surgeon General of the United States all recommend that women breastfeed their infants if possible.

A psychologist notes that brain development depends on having certain experiences, but also that brain development limits the type of experiences a child can have. This comment points out the basic idea behind the term:

An infant is shown an interesting rattle and appears to like it. Then the mother places the rattle under a blanket. The infant appears to forget about the rattle completely. Which of the following is most likely true?

If Andrew is a normal, healthy baby who weighed 8 pounds at birth, about how much would you expect him to weigh at age 4 months:

The text describes a study in which infants were shown pictures of several different horses. Then they were shown a picture of a horse and a picture of a different animal, such as a giraffe. What research technique did this study employ to determine how infants learn to categorize objects?

At about what age do most children learn to use the "pincer grasp," which allows them to use their thumb and forefinger to "pinch" a small object to pick it up?

If Emily weighed 8 pounds at birth, about how much would you expect her to weigh at age 24 months?