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Physical Development
Sensory & Perceptual Development
Cognitive Development & Memory
Social and Personality Development
Language Development
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Q: reflexes, such as sucking, that help newborns survive is known as: a. primitive reflexes b. reticular formation c. adaptive reflexes d. myelinization
A: What is adaptive reflexes
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Q: What is: the smooth movements of the eye to follow the track of a moving object? a. visual acuity b. dishabituation c. habituation d. tracking
What is tracking
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Q: What is an infant’s understanding of the nature of objects and how they behave? a. object concept b. object permanence c. deferred imitation d. means-end behavior
What is object concept
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Q: What is the emotional tie to a parent experienced by an infant, from which the child derives security? a. synchrony b. attachment c. separation anxiety d. social referencing
What is attachment
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Q: the ability to use sounds, signs, or symbols to communicate meaning is: a. expressive language b. receptive language c. holophrases d. naming explosion
What is expressive language
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What does SIDS stand for?
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
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Q: ___ acuity is better at birth than ___ acuity.
What is auditory, visual
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Q: _____ is the repetitive vocalizing of constanant-vowel combinations by an infant.
What is babbling
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What does ASD stand for?
What is Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Q: _____ language is the comprehension of spoken language.
What is receptive
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Q: Infant mortality is defined as _____
What is death within the first year of life
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Q: what is an infant's visual acuity at birth?
What is Ranges from 20/200 to 20/400
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Q: the period during which infants develop and refine sensorimotor intelligence?
What is sensorimotor stage
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Q: ______ _______ is an infants awareness that he/she is a separate person who endures through time and space and can act on the environment.
What is subjective self
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Q: Researchers suggest that sentences start to appear when a child has reached how many words?
What is 100-200 words
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Q: Experts agree that, for most infants, this method of feeding is the most nutritional:
What is breastfeeding
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Q: Newborns’ auditory skills are poorer than that of adults with ____ pitched sounds
What is Low
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Q: Which researcher assumed that a baby assimilates incoming information to the limited array of schemes she is born with?
Who is Piaget
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what is non parental care?
What is A: infants who are cared for by grandparents in their own homes, as well as those who are enrolled in day-care centers.
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Q: B.F. Skinner believed that language development begins with ______
What is babbling
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Q: What is the difference between Gross Motor Skills and Fine Motor Skills?
A: Gross motor skills include abilities such as crawling that enable the infant to get around in the environment. Fine motor skills involve the use of hands, as when a 1-year-old stacks one block on top of another, for example.
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Q: What is the difference between nativists and empiricists?
A: nativists are theorists who claim that perceptual abilities are inborn and empiricists are theorists who argue that perceptual abilities are learned.
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Q: explain some characteristics of sub-stage 5 (12-18 months) of piaget’s sensorimotor stage:
A: ‘experimentation’ beings; trying new ways to play or manipulate objects. Very active, very purposeful trial-and-error exploration.
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Q: What is the difference between secure and insecure/avoidant attachment?
What is A: secure attachment is where infants readily separates from the parent, seeks proximity when stressed and uses the parent as a safe base for exploration. Insecure/avoidant attachment is where infants avoid contact with the parent and shows no preference for the parent over other people
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Q: What is infant-directed speech (IDS)?
What is A: simplified, higher-pitched speech that adults use with infants and young children