Exam 4: Physical Development in Infancy

Kyle and Amy want their baby to walk early. In order to accomplish that, they take the baby's favorite toy and place it where the child cannot reach it from a crawling position. Kyle and Amy believe that this will motivate the baby to stand upright to retrieve the toy and will, thus, result in him walking sooner. Their belief is most consistent with the ________ systems view of development.

Which of the following statements about reflexes is true?

________ is the recognition that an object remains the same even though the retinal image of the object changes as you move toward or away from the object.

In the Gibsons' ecological view on perceptual development in infancy, objects have ________, which are opportunities for interaction offered by objects that fit within our capabilities to perform activities.

Similar to the epigenetic view, the ________ view emphasizes the importance of interactions between experience and gene expression in the brain's development.

Clara, a one-year-old baby, recently started walking. According to research, we would also expect her to

The technique of ________ consists of measuring eye movements that follow a moving object and can be used to evaluate an infant's early visual ability.

The ________ includes the cerebral cortex and several structures beneath it.

When babies engage in physical activity or use language, some synaptic connections will be strengthened, while the unused ones will be replaced by other pathways or disappear. A neuroscientist would identify this process as

The cephalocaudal pattern is the sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the

Ursula has just had a baby and is considering bottle feeding her as she plans to return to work very soon. However, she is worried that she will be unable to form a strong attachment with her baby if she does not breast feed her. Based on recent research, what would you, as her doctor, tell her?

Fourteen-year-old Michael Rehbein had the left hemisphere of his brain removed to end uncontrollable seizures. His right hemisphere gradually began to reorganize and take over functions that normally occurred in the brain's left hemisphere. This case study is cited in the chapter in order to demonstrate that

Which of the following is true of the prefrontal cortex of the brain?

Define gross and fine motor skills and give an example of each.

Your professor says that our perception brings us into contact with the environment in order to interact with and adapt to it. This indicates that he holds a(n) ________ view on perceptual development.

Amira is concerned about putting her baby on his stomach to sleep because of the risk that he might stop breathing, usually during the night, and die suddenly without an apparent cause. In other words, she is concerned about

Which of the following is true of breast feeding with regard to overweight infants?

Identify a reason why the members of the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Infant Positioning and SIDS (AAPTFIPS) (2000) discourage shared sleeping.

Which of the following statements is true of an infant's color vision?

Mauricio takes his baby to the doctor for a one-month checkup. His doctor does a test where he presents an object or a sound and checks if the baby turns his head toward it. What response is the doctor testing?