Psych Learning Curve 11a

While at the doctor's office, Neil notices an infant sitting without support. If Neil were to guess the baby's age, Neil would say it is about _____ months old.

5-7

Can babies control the movement of their arms before their heads?

No, this breaks the cephalocaudal rule.

Can babies control the movement of their hands before their elbows?

No, this breaks the proximodistal rule.

Peter, a young child, can move his head, his arms, and his legs, but cannot control his fingers individually. This demonstrates which principle of development?

Proximodistal

which is evidence that newborns attend to social stimuli?

They both follow faces more closely than nonfacial stimuli and mimic other faces.

Can babies control the movement of their heads before their legs?

Yes, this follows the cephalocaudal rule.

The ability to count numbers of objects and distinguish between one versus two objects, as well as different quantities of many objects, MOST likely relies on:

a combination of innate and cultural influences.

Physical and cognitive abnormalities in children that are the result of a pregnant woman's heavy drinking is known as fetal ______ syndrome.

alcohol

An infant learns that when she throws her bottle on the floor, her mother picks up the bottle and places it back in front of her. The infant then throws a toy and the mother again picks it up and places it back in front of her. This is an example of:

assimilation

Ten-month-old Nancy sees her sister playing with a toy house. Her sister then hits her head on the house and cries. When the house is placed in front of Nancy, she:

avoids playing w the playset that her sister hit her head on

Prenatally, the human head develops first, reflecting the "top-to-bottom" or _____ pattern.

cephalocaudal

Top-to-bottom is to inside-to-outside as _____ is to _____.

cephalocaudal; proximodistal

The blueprint for biological development comes from _____ that contain _____.

chromosomes; genes

The principle of _____ refers to the notion that the quantitative properties of an object are invariant despite changes in the object's appearance.

conservation

Research on how people change physically, mentally, and socially across the life span is MOST often conducted by _____ psychologists.

developmental

Mrs. Janssen is pregnant. The body parts, such as its limbs and ears, have just begun to form. The organism is in the _____ stage of prenatal development.

embryonic

The doctor tells Shellie that a zygote has implanted into her uterus. Shellie knows that it is in the _____ stage of development.

embryonic

Silvia has a baby with low birth weight. Which could be the reason for her baby's low birth weight?

exposure to secondhand cigarette smoke

Rhiannon went to the doctor for an ultrasound. The doctor told Rhiannon that her fetus has a skeleton and muscles. Rhiannon is in the _____ stage, and it is about _____ since conception.

fetal; 10 weeks

Infants have demonstrated social behaviour just after birth by:

mimicking facial expressions and showing greater interest in faces than in objects

Justin's 4-month-old daughter loves playing with her rattle, but when it rolls out of her crib and onto the floor, she acts as if she does not even realize it is gone. According to Jean Piaget, Justin's daughter has not yet developed:

object permanence

Baby Hannah automatically turns her head in the direction of a touch on her cheek. This is the _____ reflex; it helps an infant _____.

rooting; locate food

Which child is MOST likely to pass the false-belief test?

shayla, a 7 year-old

Janise notices a newborn attending to a stimulus and then looking away. All of a sudden, the newborn attends to the stimuli again. Which would make a newborn re-attend to the stimulus?

the stimulus changed

Pam understands that Peter has different knowledge than she does. Pam has acquired:

theory of mind