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

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:

Habituation is a form of:

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?

According to Piaget, a scheme is a mental structure much like a category.

Suppose that children raised in an orphanage in a war-torn region of the world have had far too little food to eat. As a consequence, they have little body fat and are very weak. This condition would best be described as an example of:

Infants begin cooing at approximately what age?

Suppose that an experiment involves having neonates listen to tape recordings of their own mothers reading a story to them while they are sucking on a pacifier. At one point, the mother's voice is changed to the voice of a stranger. Researchers look to see if the sucking pattern changes when the voice change occurs. The method used in this study is best considered to be an example of:

This term is used to describe the system of language involving phonemes, morphemes, semantics, and syntax:

At birth, newborns are unable to feel pain, which makes procedures like circumcision painless to the child.

The neonatal period refers to which of the following periods?

According to the text, the processes that include thinking, learning

Which of the following types of cells is most likely to function as the basis for empathy?

The child's ability to categorize objects into groups that are similar (round shapes, square shapes, triangles, and so forth) begins to emerge at about what age?

The type of malnutrition that is caused by an insufficient total quantity of food and in which muscles waste away and stored fat is depleted is:

Before children can produce a complex sentence, they are likely to be able to understand complex sentences.

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:

In Mark Rosenzweig's study of rats raised in enriched versus impoverished environments, the results suggest that environmental stimulation is important to healthy brain development.

Kwashiorkor results when a person's diet contains too little:

The fact that sometimes deaf children begin to "babble" with their hands, making up a sign language even if they have not been taught to do so, emphasizes the basic idea advanced in:

What is the adaptive function of habituation?