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

An infant is shown an interesting rattle and appears to like it. Then the mother places the rattle under a blanket. The infant appears to forget about the rattle completely. Which of the following is most likely true?

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:

About how many neurons are in the typical human brain?

Which of the following individuals would have the largest number of average synapses in the neurons of their brain?

Which of the following activities would an 8-month-old be LEAST likely to be able to do?

Several world health organizations and the Surgeon General of the United States all recommend that women breastfeed their infants if possible.

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

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

Children with marasmus most often have a diet that is deficient in:

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

Infants who are deaf do not engage in the vocalizations referred to as babbling, making it very difficult for them to learn sign language.

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

Around the world, which of the following words would be most likely to be among the first words that infants would learn (translated into their own language, of course)?

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

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

At about what age do most children learn to use the "pincer grasp," which allows them to use their thumb and forefinger to "pinch" a small object to pick it up?

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:

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:

According to the text, the two nutritional deficiencies that are most common among children in the United States are deficiencies of:

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: