Physical Development
Sensory & Perceptual Development
Cognitive Development & Memory
Social and Personality Development
Language Development
100
"Top-heavy"
The babies head is racing ahead of the rest of the body, a developmental pattern that accounts for the typical “_____” appearance of toddlers.
100
Vision, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching
What is the 5 main sensory skills the book talks about?
100
looking, listening, sucking, grasping
What are the schemes that a baby is born with?
100
psychoanalytic, ethological
What are the two most influential perspectives about infant social and personality development?
100
Infant-directed speech (IDS)
Adults and older children speak differently to infants than they do to preschoolers, a way of speaking that researchers call ________, also known as motherese.
200
Plasticity
Neuroscientists use the term ____ to refer to the brains ability to change in response to experience.
200
The formation of a single perception of a stimulus that is based on information from two or more senses.
What is intermodal perception?
200
True
Newborn babies do appear to be able to remember auditory stimuli to which they are exposed while sleeping. True or false?
200
False
A child must be biologically related to his or her parents in order to develop such a relationship of attachment. True or false?
200
Cry
From birth to about 1 month, the most common sound an infant makes is a ___, although she also produces other fussing, gurgling, and satisfied sounds.
300
Adaptive reflexes
Weak or absent_____ in neonates suggest that the brain is not functioning properly and that the infant requires additional assessment.
300
Visual-cliff
In a remarkably clever early study, Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk devised an apparatus called ____?
300
Pacifier-activated lullaby
Music therapists have discovered that the use of ______ systems in neonatal intensive care units improves preterm infants’ sucking reflexes which, in turn, cause them to gain weight more rapidly.
300
Clinging to mothers
How do infants express stranger anxiety to their mothers when strangers are present?
300
Combinations of gestures and single words that convey more meaning than just the word alone.
What are holophrases?
400
10-12
A 2 year olds height is approximately half of what it will be when she reaches physical maturity—a remarkable rate of growth, considering that the second half will be spread over a period of ____ years.
400
Where, What
Between 2 and 3 months, the cortex has developed more fully, and the baby’s attention seems to shift from ____ an object is to ____ an object is.
400
1-2, 15-18
imitation of someone else’s hand movement or an action with an object seems to improve steadily; starting at _____ months of age; imitation of two-part actions develops much later, perhaps around _____ months.
400
True
Researchers have found that infants whose parents are married are more likely to be securely attached than babies whose parents are either cohabiting or single. True or false?
400
8
Recent research has shown that babies are beginning to store individual words in their memories at around ____ months of age.
500
cephalocaudal pattern and proximodistal pattern
Q: Physical development proceeds from the head downward (______) and from the center of the body outward (____).
500
False, 1 and 6 months
Research findings show that intermodal perception is possible as early as 3 months and becomes common by 8 months. True or false?
500
the baby would reflexively turn away from the breast in response to sensation of smothering, and will refuse nursing on same breast in the future.
Pediatrician Mavis Gunther found that inexperienced mothers often held nursing newborns in ways that caused the babies nostrils to be blocked by the breast. Predictably, what would the baby do during future nursing sessions?
500
Alexander Thomas and his wife Stella Chess
Which two people proposed that 3 temperament classifications apply to about 75% of infants?
500
Focus on the phonemes, rhythm, and intonation of language spoken in the home; has receptive vocab of 20-30 words
What typically happens in language development during 8-9 months?
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