Infants and Toddlers- Physical
This is when one might expect a baby's weight has tripled
What is their first birthday.
What is the term for the understanding that objects still exist even when we cannot see them?
What is object permanence
Is growth faster or slower in early childhood compared to infancy?
What is slower
Which group is particularly important to child development according to Vygotsky?
Peers with the same cognitive skills, peers with more advanced skills, or peers with less advanced skills
What is peers with more advanced cognitive skills
What a child can pass the rouge test, it provides some evidence that they have developed what?
What happens to neural connections which are not used or strengthened when an infant is young?
What is they get pruned
What kinds of brain functions will ONLY develop with specific experiences, typically within a specific time window
What is experience-dependent processes
What is the most common cause of death for young children in the US?
What are accidents
According to Piaget, early children begin illogical and, over the early childhood years, develop representational thought. What is this stage called?
What is the preoperational stage
Addie realizes that just because her friend Shawn likes to dress up in princess dresses and do fashion shows, he is still a boy. What construct does Addie show evidence of having achieved?
What is gender stability
What is stroke a baby's foot to induce the Babinski reflex
Goodness of fit describes the degree to which a what matches an individual's temperament
What is an environment
Unfortunately, an estimated 3 million children in the US are victims of child abuse. _____ is the most common kind of abuse.
What is neglect
A child has a toy doll named Sally. When on a playdate with a friend, she meets her friend's toy doll. She calls her friend's doll Sally. What phenomenon is this an example of?
What is overextension
Kelly assigns your class a homework assignment which involves writing and publishing a paper on a novel research question. You think that this assignment is unreasonably hard. According to Vygotsky, why might this assignment be too difficult?
What is it is outside of our zone of proximal development
True or false: newborns can only discriminate some sounds but not all sounds, such as vowel sounds which they cannot discriminate
What is TRUE
Name that attachment type:
A child explores their environment readily, does not fear other people including strangers, and is apathetic when their parent leaves the room and returns
What is insecure-avoidant
What is the term for the increasing specialization of the hemispheres in the brain, a process seen especially during early childhood?
What is lateralization
Matty does not understand that pouring water back into it's original container restores the original amount. He is missing what concept from Piaget?
What is irreversibility
Anna and Elsa both love to play in the snow. While they are playing, they are making snow angels side by side and each making forts, but they do not work together on a single fort or interact with each other much. What kind of play are Anna and Elsa partaking in?
What is parallel play
The term for forming new neural connections, a process which happens particularly quickly in the brains of infants
What is synaptogenesis
If a child showed difficulty with language comprehension, they may have atypical development of _____, but if they have difficulty with language production, they may have atypical development of _____.
What is Wernicke's area and Broca's area
John wakes just a few hours after his parents put him to bed in a panic. He is hyperventilating and seems to still be sleeping even while he is screaming. His parents have a hard time calming him down, and he is in turn very cranky the next day. What is most likely to blame for John's crankiness?
What is a night terror
Which hemisphere of the brain is generally thought to specialize over the preschool years for functions related to comprehension of spatial relationships, recognition of patterns, and music?
What is the right hemisphere
Name that parenting style:
Sara's child wants to jump off the slide. She tells her child to get down immediately and that they are not allowed to jump. When the child asks why they can't jump, she says "because I said you couldn't".
What is authoritarian parenting