Exam 5: Physical Development in Infants and Toddlers

The most common cause of accidental death in children is

A preference for one hand over the other

Allan wants to know what kind of sounds his newborn son can hear the best. What could you tell him about infant auditory capabilities?

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures ________ in the brain using ________.

The visual system(s) of the infant

In order to learn to do a triple jump in ice-skating, Jennifer broke the triple jump into its component parts-the take-off, the individual turns, and the landing-and practised each of those individually. Jennifer was using ________ to master a complex act.

About 15 minutes of massage daily will improve _____ in healthy, full-term babies.

Light we see as the colour ________ has a relatively long wavelength.

Which of the following is true of infants' auditory perception?

The brain's electrical activity is measured by

When Canadian researchers Zelazo and colleagues (1993) had one group of infants practise stepping, a second group practise sitting, and a control group that did not practise either stepping or sitting, they found infants who practised

Marie has a deficiency in thyroxine, which is likely to result in

The production of neurons is virtually complete

Axons are wrapped in a fatty sheath called ________ that helps transmit information more rapidly.

Bone develops from

The pain cry in infants

When infants are held upright over a treadmill

In a culture where children are discouraged from using their left hands and encouraged to use their right hands, you would expect to find

Who is performing a fine-motor skill?

PET-scans show that activity in the frontal cortex