Exam 3: Infancy: Physical and Cognitive Development

Children who are excessively short because of a chronic lack of adequate nutrition suffer from a condition called:

Major public health organizations recommend that babies be exclusively breast-fed for the first _____ months after birth.

Baby Mamie has recently discovered the outside world. She now bats the mobile over her crib for hours. According to Piaget, this behavior is a secondary circular reaction and Mamie is probably _____ old.

Anthony, age 8 months, and his father are driving to the park when a heavy pipe falls off a passing truck and crushes the roof of their car. Both of them sustain serious injuries to the language areas of their brain. What predictions can be made about their future functioning, and why?

Newborn reflexes typically:

Amanda says her newborn son is a genius because when her breast touches his cheek, he immediately finds it and begins to suck. A developmentalist should respond that this:

Preferential-looking studies show that newborns demonstrate visual preferences in that they prefer to look at:

An information-processing researcher would make which of the following statements?

When does depth perception or fear of heights fully develop?

Babies are highly motivated to learn to speak.

If a 6-foot-tall 3-month-old baby boy walked into the classroom after everyone had read this chapter, which is an impression students would have?

Joshua, at 4 months, is just beginning to move around. During the next few months Joshua will:

Outline the milestones in the progression of speaking in infancy, and then explain why both Chomsky (or the nature-oriented position) and the environmentalists (or nurture advocates) are both correct in describing language development.

Danielle puts a compelling object in front of her nephew; then, when she covers it, the child acts as if it's no longer there. Danielle's nephew is:

One-year-old Danny is fascinated with flushing the toilet and throwing different objects down the bowl. Flushing to see the water go down shows _____. The fact that Danny is expecting to see things reappear again after they are out of sight shows he understands the basics of object permanence.

Which BEST describes twenty-first-century global trends in undernutrition and stunting?

The brain changes that program humans' unfolding skills are:

Health-care professionals in many Western nations strongly advocate breast-feeding. Some people believe that these pressures make many new mothers feel guilty and uncomfortable. Are health-care professionals overinflating breast milk's benefits and putting undue stress on young mothers? Drawing on the text's points, make a case against insisting that women breast-feed for 6 months.

Animal studies suggest that _____ may offer babies long-term insulation from stress.

If Jasmine sleeps for 12 hours each night and takes two naps during the day, Jasmine is MOST likely: