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

The basic sounds in a language are referred to as:

Suppose an anthropologist studies a culture in which adults have very poor diets and consequently are considerably shorter than would be expected. The word that describes this condition is:

Suppose that you observe 1000 young children, recording the age at which each is first able to pick up a rattle and shake it. You now compute an average age at which this developmental milestone is reached by the "typical" child. Your work would be most similar to the work that is summarized in which of the following?

The basic units of sounds in a language are referred to as:

What is the adaptive function of habituation?

In comparison to a newborn, a 4-month-old infant spends ____ time sleeping and ____ time in alert activity.

The most severe effects from shaken baby syndrome typically result from injury to:

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.

The finding that newborns prefer to look at pictures of their mother's face over pictures of strangers' faces suggests that these behaviors may be linked to the development of:

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:

The Newborn Behavioral Observation system is usually used to assess the health of a newborn child.

As early as 2 weeks of age, infants show a preference for looking at a photo of their mother as opposed to looking at a photo of a stranger.

In developing nations around the world, malnutrition affects about 50% of children under the age of 5.

According to the text, if your goal were to minimize the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, you would advise caregivers to put their infants to sleep in which of the following positions?

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 you visit a child development laboratory and observe a researcher working with an 8-month-old baby. The baby is sitting on top of a piece of Plexiglas, which rests partly over a table top and then extends out over the end of the table. The apparatus being used in this experiment is typically called a:

According to the text, in industrialized nations like the U.S. the most typical age at which foods other than milk are introduced into a child's diet is:

During the first few weeks of life, hearing is believed to be muffled because of: