Physical Development
Sensory and Perceptual Development
Cognitive Development and Memory
Social and Personality Development
Language Development
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Pruning
What is the process of eliminating unused synapses?
100
Tracking
____ is the smooth movements of the eye to follow the track of a moving object.
100
Where infants use information from their senses and motor actions to learn about the world
Define Piaget’s sensorimotor stage.
100
Synchrony
Is a mutual, interlocking pattern of attachment behaviors shared by a parent and child:
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A: The behaviorists view, the nativists view, and the interactionist view
What are the three theoretical perspectives explained in the book?
200
Because the brain develops faster than the rest of the body
What is the reason for babies having a “top heavy” appearance?
200
A research method in which a researcher keeps track of how long a baby looks at each of two objects shown
What is the preference technique?
200
Means-end behavior
What is the term for purposeful behavior carried out in pursuit of a specific goal?
200
Secure Attachment
____ is a pattern of attachment in which an infant readily separates from the parent, seeks proximity when stressed, and uses the parent as a safe base for exploration
200
A: Language Acquisition Device (LAD)
_____ is an innate language processor, theorized by Chomsky, that contains the basic grammatical structure of all human language
300
Reticular Formation
The _____ structure in brain regulates attention.
300
Nativists
Term used to define theorists who claim that perceptual abilities are inborn.
300
Object Permanence
_____ is the understanding that objects continue to exist when they can’t be seen.
300
An infant’s awareness that she or he is a separate person who endures through time and space and can act on the environment.
What is the definition of subjective self?
300
Interactionist
Term used to define theorists who argue that language development is a sub-process of general cognitive development and is influenced by both internal and external factors is:
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Adaptive reflexes are reflexes that help babies survive such as sucking. Primitive reflexes are reflexes that disappear within the first year.
Explain the difference between adaptive reflexes and primitive reflexes
400
Two
Intermodal perception is the formation of a single perception of a stimulus that is based on information from ___ or more senses.
400
Object concept is the understanding of the nature of an object and how they behave and object permanence is referring to objects that continue to exist even when they can’t be seen
What is the difference between object permanence and object concept?
400
1. Activity Level 2. Approach/ positive emotionality/sociability 3. Inhibition and anxiety 4. Negative emotionality/ irritability/anger 5. Effortful control/ task persistent
What are the five key dimensions of temperament?
400
The repetitive vocalizing of consonant-vowel combinations by an infant
What is babbling?
500
80% of the time
How often do Neonates sleep?
500
Habituation is a decline in attention that occurs because a stimulus has become familiar. Dishabituation is responding to a somewhat familiar stimulus as if it were new.
What is the difference between dishabituation and habituation?
500
It is a research strategy in which researchers move an object in one way after having taught an infant to expect it to move in another
Explain the violation-of-expectations method.
500
A: Phase 1: Non-focused orienting and signaling Phase 2: Focus on one or more figures Phase 3: Secure base behavior Phase 4: Internal model
What are the four stages of a child establishing attachment?
500
IDS is the simplified, higher-pitched speech that adults use with infants and young children. Studies show that children prefer to listen to adults speak to them with IDS language and it has been shown that it can affect language development positively.
Define infant directed speech (IDS) and is it helpful for speech development?