Q: The ______ is the least-developed part of the brain at birth.
What is the Cortex.
100
Q: Is a newborns auditory acuity or visual acuity better?
What is Auditory Acuity
100
Q: When an infant distinguishes between familiar and unfamiliar stimuli it is what type of learning?
What is Schematic Learning
100
Q: What theory states that infants are biologically predisposed to form emotional bonds with caregivers?
What is Attachment Theory
100
Q: What is the repetitive vocalization of consonant-vowel combination by an infant?
What is Babbling
200
Q: The ability of the brain to change in response to experience is called what?
A. Plasticity
B. Adaptive Reflexes
C. Myelinization
D. Synaptogenesis
What is Plasticity
200
Q: ______ are theorists who claim that perceptual abilities are learned.
A. Nativists
B. Empiricists
C. Realists
D. Narcissists
What is Empiricists
200
Q: Which substage is the tertiary circular reactions where “experimentation” begins?
A. 1
B. 6
C. 3
D. 5
What is 5
200
Q: What type of attachment is occurring when a child shows no preference for mother over stranger?
A. Secure Attachment
B. Avoidant Attachment
C. Ambivalent Attachment
D. Disorganized Attachment
What is Avoidant Attachment
200
Q: What are simple two-word sentences that usually include a noun and a verb?
A. Pattern Speech
B. Holophrases
C. Expressive Phrases
D. Telegraphic Speech
What is Telegraphic Speech
300
Q: At what age are female toddlers half the size they will be as adults?
What is 2-years-old
300
Q: At what age do most children reach 20/20 vision?
A. About 2 months
B. About 4 months
C. About 6 months
D. About 8 months
What is about 6 months
300
Q: The ________ error is a tendency for an infant to look at where an object was instead of where they saw the researcher move it.
What is A-not-B Error
300
Q: ________ is the inborn predispositions that form the foundations of personality.
What is Temperament
300
Q: ________ is the period between 16 and 24 months when toddlers experience rapid vocabulary growth.
What is Naming Explosion
400
Q: At what point do primitive reflexes reveal possible neurological problems?
What is after 8 months
400
Q: When a stimulus becomes familiar and a decline in attention occurs is called?
What is Habituation
400
Q: ________ behavior is purposeful behavior carried out in pursuit of a specific goal.
What is Means-End Behavior
400
Q: ______ referencing is an infant’s use of others’ facial expressions as a guide to his or her own emotions.
What is Social Referencing
400
Q: What did Chomsky call the innate language processor that contains the basic grammatical structure of all human language?
What is Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
500
Q: ________ is the process of bone hardening.
What is Ossification
500
Q: Besides sweet, sour, bitter and salty what is the other flavor that newborns can taste?
What is Umami
500
Q: At approximately what age does a baby begin developing object permanence?
What is 2 months
500
Q: What percentage of infants are slow-to-warm-up children?
What is 15%
500
Q: If a baby is making cooing sounds when alone or responding to smiles and cooing when talked to he/she is how old?