Exam 5: Physical Development in Infants and Toddlers

You are asked to create a brochure for a "Hungry Children" campaign designed to educate the public about malnourishment during infancy and childhood. Which of the following subtitles would be most appropriate to include in the brochure?

Gross motor development can be negatively affected by

________ refers to the extent to which brain organization is flexible.

Combining the component skills of a complex motion to form a working whole is called

Which of the following statements is true of the role of experience in motor development?

To see if infants can assemble a pattern from individual elements, 3-month-olds were shown a square. After six presentations of the square, the infants were shown diagrams of partially cut-out circles arranged in various patterns. In Pattern A, the circles were arranged in the shape of a square, but in Patterns B-D, the arrangements did not resemble a square. What did the researchers find?

Andrea's father is annoyed when 2-year-old Andrea refuses to eat her peas, even though she has enjoyed them in the past. What would you tell him?

Even though malnourishment seems only to be of concern in developing countries,

In African countries where infants are given daily practice in walking and are carried "piggy-back," infants

The brain is

If you looked at a picture of a dog and a cat, when would you judge the cat to be farther away than the dog?

The fact that when a person views an object, the retinal images in the left and right eyes differ is called

Your friends John and Lisa are wondering whether their newborn son can feel pain. What can you tell them about infants' ability to feel pain?

Motor development involves many distinct skills that are organized and reorganized over time to meet the demands of specific tasks according to

For infants who grow up in more extreme climates, the seasons have _____ on motor development.

Neurons

What traditional staple of the Canadian diet has decreased in consumption during the early part of the 21st century?

The body's muscle fibres

Positron emission tomography (PET)

When 3-month-olds look at faces, they