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

Twenty-month-old Hannah pretended to drive a car by sitting in a clothes basket and making steering motions with her hands. Her behavior is best considered an example of:

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

The neural "pruning" that takes place during infancy and toddlerhood results in:

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

When a child produces a single word, such as "bottle," it may mean a variety of things, such as "I want the bottle" or "there's the bottle" or "I like the bottle." This type of usage is referred to as:

The text notes that the rate of infant deaths from sudden infant death syndrome is higher in the winter months than the summer months, suggesting that SIDS may be the result of:

At birth, the newborn's ability to see colors is equal to that of an adult.

The process of shifting the infant's diet from breast- or bottle-feeding to eating and drinking a wider variety of foods is referred to as:

Scientists currently are speculating that defects in the mirror neuron system may be implicated in which of the following disorders:

The term used to refer to a failure to achieve full adult height due to malnutrition during childhood is:

Research demonstrates that many of the first words children learn are quite consistent from one culture to another, even though languages children use differ.

According to the text, the processes that include thinking, learning, perceiving, remembering, and understanding are together referred to as:

All of the following behaviors are likely to be in place by the age of 4 months of age EXCEPT:

Adaptation is much more effective if it consists of accommodation, rather than assimilation.

Mark Rosenzweig's famous study of rats that were raised in either "enriched" or "impoverished" environments demonstrated that rats raised in enriched environments:

According to the text, individuals experience the most rapid and dramatic developmental change during which 2-year period of the lifespan?

Which of the following experiences the least amount of change during the period of infancy and toddlerhood?

If Andrew is a normal, healthy baby who weighed 8 pounds at birth, about how much would you expect him to weigh at age 4 months:

When a child says something like "I have two foots" (rather than feet), this is called telegraphic speech.

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