Chapter 3 Practice Questions

The death rate from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) dropped MOST dramatically in the:

1990s

Research has demonstrated that infants as young as _____ month(s) can remember after two weeks if provided with a brief reminder session.

3

Ian is 7 months old. If he is a typical baby, his parents can expect him to:

be able to babble

A game in which a father hides his face and then reveals it while saying "peek-a-boo" is fun for an 8-month-old because of the child's emerging sense of:

object permanence

Angela spends her waking hours sucking on her hand, looking around the room, and trying to grasp at her clothing. It is likely that Angela is in stage _____ of sensorimotor development.

one

Jayne is a responsive parent to her full-term son. She knows when he needs to eat and when he needs to sleep. In regard to sleep, he usually: Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.

sleeps more than low-weight babies

Quiet sleep or _____ sleep increases at 3 or 4 months.

slow wave

Pointing is one of the earliest gestures, emerging at about _____ months of age.

10

Approximately _____ percent of infants sleep more than 20 hours per day.

5

Evidence that biological growth is the foundation for cognitive and social maturity comes from the fact that although 2-year-olds can barely talk and are totally dependent on adults, they have already reached half of their adult height and _____ percent of their adult brain size.

75

At home, 3-year-old Mathilde's parents speak both French and English, but Mathilde's grandmother only speaks English. If asked a question by her grandmother, Mathilde is likely to answer using only _____ words.

English

Dr. Donaldson believes that infants are active learners from birth, through their senses and motor skills. His views MOST closely align with those of:

Piaget

Parents are told that their newborn is in the 90th percentile for height. This means that their child is of:

above average height

Anong, who is breast-feeding her infant daughter, had measles as a child. Her daughter will be protected from the disease because of the _____ in Anong's breast milk.

antibodies

Professor Sanchez believes that children acquire language through reinforcement from adults, especially their parents. He believes that child-directed speech is a type of reinforcement. Professor Sanchez is advocating the _____ theory of language development. Please choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button.

behaviorist

Research suggests that children who are exposed to more than one language in early childhood:

can learn and separate the two languages

Receptors highly sensitive to sweetness are active on Nadine's tongue. Bitterness receptors are also active, but to a lesser extent. Nadine recognizes the taste of cola and considers her resolution to reduce her soda consumption. When Nadine considers her resolution, she is demonstrating:

cognition

Deborah tells her 2-year-old daughter to pick up her stuffed rabbit and she picks it up and hands it to her mother. Deborah's 2-year-old daughter is demonstrating language:

comprehension

According to the text, the composition of breast milk for premature babies _____ breast milk for older infants.

differs from

Baby Whitney's parents communicate with her in Polish, their native language. The fact that almost all caregivers speak to infants makes this an _____ event.

experience-expectant

The risks of disease are less than the risks associated with immunization is a _____ statement on immunization.

false

An infant's weight usually doubles between birth and about the _____ month.

fourth

Sharon is just learning to speak. She says words like da-da, kitty, and ma-ma. This is not unusual because, whatever the language, when children begin to speak, they tend to use mostly:

nouns

Meena cannot be vaccinated because of her allergies, but she is protected to some degree from catching childhood diseases because of _____ immunity, which means that at least 90 percent of people in her local community have been immunized.

herd

The term _____ refers to a single word that expresses a complete thought.

holophrase

Professor Norman frequently uses examples of how computers analyze data to help the class understand how human memory works. Professor Norman evidently is an advocate of:

information-processing theory

Mike and Cynthia are bankers, and both earn a great deal of money. They are determined not to deny their children anything that money can buy. Consequently, they have bought their children a multitude of spinning, buzzing, multi-textured, and multicolored toys. Mike and Cynthia are convinced that their children will grow up to be geniuses. The text suggests that such toys:

may be a waste of time and money since infants can be overstimulated by them

The five senses do NOT include:

motion

In general, the prevalence of co-sleeping is _____ related to the parents' SES.

negatively

The text suggests that immunization rate is _____ correlated with infant mortality rate.

negatively

Nine-month-old Charlie repeatedly reaches for his sister's doll, even though he has been told "no" many times. This is an example of:

new adaptation and anticipation

Fanny's photoreceptors detect light and dark stimuli. Cortical processing then allows her to recognize the words in her psychology textbook. As she reads, Fanny relates the information to her own experiences. Fanny's recognition of the words illustrates _____. When she relates the information to her experiences, Fanny is demonstrating _____.

perception; cognition

The last part of the brain to mature is involved in:

planning

The text suggests that infant mortality is _____ correlated with fertility rate.

positively

What area of the brain assists in planning, self-control, and self-regulation?

prefrontal cortex

The brain of 12-year-old Deval has now lost about 40 percent of its synapses. This normal developmental process is known as:

pruning

Realizing that rattles make a noise, a 4-month-old infant laughs with delight when his father puts a rattle in his hand. This is an example of a _____ circular reaction.

secondary

Hair cells in Kirk's basilar membrane detect a series of high-pitched tones. Kirk recognizes the ring tone assigned to calls from his mother. Kirk remembers he had neglected to call his mother the night before as he had promised. The action of Kirk's hair cells illustrates _____. When he remembers the promise, Kirk is demonstrating _____.

sensation; cognition

Two-month-old Maggie smiles indiscriminatingly at everyone she sees and puts everything she can grasp in her mouth. The reason she is not more selective is because _____ precedes _____.

sensation; perception

In which of Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive development is intelligence expressed through sensory and motor abilities?

sensorimotor

B. F. Skinner believed that infant communication progresses because of:

speech reinforcement

Four-year-old Mosola, who lives in western Africa, is short for his age. He often has only one bowl of yams a day to eat. He could be suffering from the condition called:

stunting

By his or her first birthday, a newborn's weight typically:

triples

Abby has begun to suck only her thumb, rather than her whole hand. It is likely that Abby is in stage _____ of sensorimotor development.

two

Jolanda holds a bottle to her 3-month-old infant's mouth and the baby reaches out to grab the bottle. Jolanda's baby appears to be in stage _____ of sensorimotor intelligence.

two