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What are connections between neurons?
Synapses
100
Process of following a moving object with your eyes is called ____.
tracking
100
Language development begins with ____.
Blabber
100
The tendency to move often and vigorously rather than to remain passive or immobile.
What is activity level
100
_____ is the comprehension of spoken language
What is receptive language
200
____ is death within the first year.
Infant mortality
200
Newborn’s ____ are actually better than there visual activity.
(auditory acuity)
200
____ is the organizing of experiences into expectancies or known combinations.
Schematic learning
200
An infant’s use of others’ facial expressions as a guide to his or her own emotions.
What is social referencing
200
A baby begins to make some laughing and ____ sounds at about 1-2 months
What is cooing
300
Humans are born with ___ to help them survive, while ____ are less clear to describe.
adaptive reflexes, primitive reflexes
300
____ claim that most perceptual abilities are inborn, while ____ argue that these skills are learned.
(nativists, empiricists)
300
What is object permanence?
(understanding why objects continue to exist when they can’t be seen)
300
Developmentalists once believed that ____ resulted from a disturbance in the attachment process.
What is autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
300
Research suggests that sentences appear when a child has reached a threshold vocabulary of around ___ to ___ words.
What is 100 to 200
400
Briefly describe Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
(SIDS happens when an apparently healthy baby dies unexpectedly and without reason)
400
What are baby’s visual attention guided by?
(Meaningful patterns)
400
What is the sensorimotor stage? What does it all entail?
What is (Piaget’s first stage of development in which infants use information from their senses and motor actions to learn about the world)
400
The three types of temperament include: ____, _____, and ____.
What is (easy children, difficult children, slow-to-warm-up children)
400
What device guides children’s comprehension and production of language by an innate language processor?
What is Language acquisition device (LAD)
500
List 3 ages and list 2 gross motor skills and 2 fine motor skills that go along with the ages (in months) you selected.
(1: Gross: Stepping reflex, lifts head slightly, Fine: holds object if placed in hand. 2-3: Gross: Lifts head up to 90 degree angle when lying on stomach, Fine: begins to swipe at objects in sight. 4-6: Gross: rolls over, sits with support, Fine: reaches for and grasps objects)
500
What is intermodal perception?
(formation of a single perception of a stimulus that is based on information from two or more senses)
500
Describe the behaviorist view.
What is B.F. Skinner formulated operant conditioning theory that suggested an explanation of language development that language development begins with babbling.
500
What are the 4 phases of establishing attachment?
What is (Phase 1: nonfocused orienting and signaling, Phase 2: Focus on one or more figures, Phase 3: Secure base behavior, and Phase 4: Internal model)
500
What is IDS?
What is Infant-directed speech the simplified higher-pitched speech that adults use with infants and young children