Exam 3: Infancy: Physical and Cognitive Development

Most U.S. mothers breast-feed for 6 months.

Monique's child is obsessed with putting oatmeal in the USB port of her computer and then pushing buttons to see if the food reappears. Piaget would label this behavior as a sign of:

Babies first understand when people are being mean at approximately:

Which is the correct order for language acquisition?

The myelin sheath is fully formed during the:

Neural pruning begins in the frontal lobes during late childhood.

A developmentalist whose passion is studying infant-directed speech would MOST likely be a(n):

Baby Jasmine wakes up every 2 hours to be fed, but she sleeps for about 18 to 20 hours a day. Jasmine is:

As object permanence emerges, babies make the _____ error.

A 10-month-old baby who looks for a hidden object in the first place he found it, rather than in the last place he saw it, is showing:

The capacity to engage in deferred imitation reflects a child's _____ capacities.

_____, or carrying a baby in a baby sling, helps premature babies grow.

Fatma's 1-year-old daughter still hasn't begun to walk. The BEST conclusion is that this:

A mother of a newborn tells her doctor, "When something touches my baby's cheek, she turns towards it and begins to suck." Her doctor should respond by saying:

In hunter-gatherer societies, women exclusively breast-feed until their babies are 3 years old.

Six-month-old baby Grace's father is delighted when he comes into her room one morning and she declares, "da da da." This alternation of consonant and vowel sounds is called:

Face perception studies suggest that from birth, humans are "prewired" to look at:

A young baby who cries excessively has _____.

Automatic activities NOT programmed by the cortex are called:

Wynetta, age 1, is one of the most advanced babies in physical development at her day-care center. She rolled over, sat up, and walked before any of the other children. Her parents are certain that her early motor development is an indicator of her overall intellectual giftedness. Are they right?