Chapter 4 Quiz

__________ refers to the capacity to retain information for a brief time.

Short Term Memory

__________ babies are notably low in activity level and react negatively to new situations.

Slow to warm up

National studies have found that __________ of babies in the United States use educational media products.

10%

Neonates sleep for __________ hours a day in periods of a few hours

16-17

Gibson and Walk designed an experiment where they made a glass-covered table with a checkered pattern below the glass that created __________.

a visual cliff

The emotion that an infant would most likely display earliest in development is __________.

sadness

The neonate's brain is about __________ the size of an adult's brain.

25%

When do infants begin to use gestures to communicate?

8-10 months

Which scale of the BSID-III measures attention and exploration?

Cognitive

__________ is the revival of attention when a new stimulus is presented following several presentations of a previous stimulus.

Dishabituation

__________ is an ability to integrate attention and memory that rises steeply in early childhood.

Executive function

According to Piaget, how long does the sensorimotor stage last?

First 2 years

Which of the following is a common feature of infant social life in most cultures throughout history?

Infants are surrounded by others and carried or held almost constantly.

What does ontogenetic mean in relation to infants' gross motor development?

It takes place due to an inborn, individual timetable

Which of the following statements about the use of infant-directed speech is true?

It varies from culture to culture outside the West.

Dayle goes to the doctor and expresses concern that her infant's head is too big for his body. The doctor tells her that this is normal because of the __________.

cephalocaudal principle

Erikson and Bowlby both viewed __________ as the key issue in an infant's attachment to others.

Trust

Little Rupert goes to the market with his mother and calls all men he sees "Dada." This is an example of __________.

assimilation

Infants need more __________ in their diets than at any later point in life, to fuel the growth of their bodies and (especially) their brains.

fat

Most infant mortality takes place during the __________ month of life.

first

All approaches to measuring temperament view it as the raw material of __________, which is then shaped by the environment.

personality

By age 2-3 months, when researchers ask parents to show no emotion for a time while interacting with their infants, the infants respond __________.

with distress