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

A child typically has a vocabulary of about 50 words at which of the following ages?

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

A child's understanding of the spoken or written word is called:

If blindness or severe visual impairment is the result of a nutritional deficiency, the most likely cause is a deficiency of:

In contrast to how scientists working in earlier decades have conceptualized the neonatal period, scientists today understand that:

The complex process by which the mind interprets sensory input is the text's definition of:

Although language development ultimately ends with the ability to produce and understand language, children raised in different cultures proceed through the stages of language development is widely varying sequences. For example, English-speaking children learn to coo before they babble, but children raised in China babble before they coo.

According to the text, the "language explosion" begins at about what age?

When an infant learns to coordinate looking at an object, grasping the object, and putting the object in her mouth, this process is called:

The most severe effects from shaken baby syndrome typically result from injury to:

All human languages have the same basic set of sounds, or phonemes, which are arranged in various ways to form words.

The primary functions of glial cells are to:

The visual cliff is used to test infants':

The text discusses a study of Guatemalan infants, who were poorly nourished and not provided with much opportunity for interaction with adults. These infants were also observed to learn to walk at later ages than less-deprived children from other cultures. With respect to the concept of maturation, which of the following conclusions does this study support?

Suppose you observe a researcher interacting with an infant by shaking a rattle while the baby is watching, and then placing the rattle underneath a pillow. The researcher then records whether or not the baby can find the rattle under the pillow. The concept this researcher is studying is most likely:

The typical child begins to produce repeated syllables, such as "ga-ga-ga," at about what age?

Which of the following was NOT one of the six arousal states identified in newborns by Peter Wolff?

Breastfeeding, rather than bottle-feeding, improves infant mortality rates in:

If a normal adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds, about how much would a normal baby's brain weigh at the time of birth?

About how many neurons are in the typical human brain?