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

Many students study in a room with a TV on or an iPod playing, completely tuned out to the sound of the music and voices. However, if their favorite artist's name is mentioned, their attention shifts from their reading to the TV or iPod. This phenomenon is best considered to be an example of the basic principles that underlie:

If three babies of different ages were shown the same picture of a human face, you would expect that the 2-month-old baby would look longest at __________; the 5-month-old baby would look longest at the ___________; and the 8-month-old baby would look longest at ___________.

In the United States, about what percent of 1-year-old infants are able to stand by themselves and take their first step?

If you were to record the activity of a mirror neuron, you should expect that it would act in the same way when we perform an action - such as picking up an object - as when we:

Suppose you see a grandparent at the toy store buying a set of 5 "stacking" blocks, a box of large-size crayons, and a toy telephone. Based on this selection of toys, your best guess is that the child these toys are intended for is about how old?

The text notes that the rate of infant deaths from sudden infant death syndrome is higher in the winter months than the summer months, suggesting that SIDS may be the result of:

The term used to refer to a failure to achieve full adult height due to malnutrition during childhood is:

When 16-month-old Simon was visiting his relatives, he observed his older cousin stomp his foot to the beat of music, something Simon had never seen before. The next day, when Simon heard music on the radio, he stomped his foot to the beat. Simon's "foot stomping" behavior would best be considered an example of:

Which of the following abilities is the newborn infant capable of performing as early as the first week of life?

All of the following terms refer to basic units of language EXCEPT:

In the United States, at about what age is the average child first able to sit without support, if placed in this position?

Franklin believes that all humans are born with a biological predisposition to develop language, and that a specific region in the brain is highly adapted for language learning. In this respect, Dr. Franklin's view would emphasize the same central feature as which of the following concepts?

If an infant has learned to push buttons on a toy to get it to make funny sounds, and now the toy is changed so that she must turn the buttons to the left or right to hear the sounds, the learning this requires would best be considered an example of:

Goiter, a condition in which the thyroid gland is enlarged, is most often associated a deficiency of which of the following nutrients?

According to the text, if your goal were to minimize the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, you would advise caregivers to put their infants to sleep in which of the following positions?

When a child produces a single word, such as bottle, it may mean a variety of things, such as "I want the bottle" or "there's the bottle" or "I like the bottle." This type of usage is referred to as:

Mark Rosenzweig's famous study of rats that were raised in either "enriched" or "impoverished" environments demonstrated that rats raised in enriched environments:

Which of the following statements is the most accurate description about babbling when infants are deaf?

If Kelly sings into with a ketchup bottle

Although infants have no sense of taste and smell at birth, by age 2 months these senses are functioning at the adult level.