Psych 220 set 2

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At what age can an infant perceve depth?

6-8 months

When a child is two years old what proportion of their future adult brain is the current chid's brain?

75%

Approximately how many newborns are born deaf?

1 in 1000

On average, a child can understand 50 words at..., but can speak 50 words at...

13 months, 18 months

On average, how many hours per day do newborns sleep?

16-17 hours per day

A newborn's vision is approximately what?

20/600

How many words can the average two year old speak?

200

The use of appropriate language in different contexts is known as what?

Pragmatics

What is the highest cause of infant death in the US each year?

SIDS

which of the following is not a subscale in the Baily scales of Infant Development?

Subscales: mental scale, motor scale and infant behavior profile

True or False: identifying an infant as slow, normal or advanced has its advantages.

True

Which of the following is not a temperment type/style for children identified by Thomas and Chess?

Types: easy child(40%), difficult child(10%), slow to warm up child(15%) unclassified(35%)

When should a mother not breastfeed her child?

When she has AIDS or another infectious disease, has active tuberculosis, is taking a drug that is unsafe for the baby

When does the grasping reflex disappear?

When the voluntarily grab things

Which of the following was not a criticism of Piaget's work?

criticism: not specific enough, claimed processes are crucial in transition between stages, infants perceptual abilities may be more developed than thought

True or False: wether an environment is enriched or deprived does not segnificanttly effect physical brain development

false

Information comes into a neuron through what cell structure?

Dendrites

The primary achievement at the end of the sensory-motor stage is what?

Infant understands the world through their sensory experiences.

Which attachment type, identified by Ainsworth, is supposed to be the most problematic for a child?

Insecure Disorganized

The layer of fat surrounding the axon of a neuron is called what?

Myelin sheath

Which of the following is not a type of non-medicated pain reduction technique/s during childbirth?

types: music therapy, lamaz, water birth, hypnosis, acupuncture

Which of the following is not a period of a growth spurt in the brain?

growth spurts: 1 and 1/2 -2 years, 9,12,15 and 18-20

Which of the following does influence the intensity of anger/anxiety?

influences: familiarity of settings, individual differences and who the stranger is, how stranger behaves.

The word teratogen literaly means

monster forming

Which of the following is not a risk factor for SIDS?

risk factors: sibling has died from sids, sleep apnea, low birthweight, expossed to ciggarette smoke, being african american or eskimo, infant placed on spft bedding, abnormal brain stem functioning involving serotonin

Which of the following best describes the pattern of development in infancy?

...

Incorporati g new information into existing information is known as what?

Accomodation

"Action-Potentials" in neurons are governed by what principle?

All or none

In which lobe of the brain do we find the sensory cortex?

Any part of the brain that receives sensory information.

Primary emotions first appear at what age?

Appear in first six months

Who stated that a newborn is biologically equipped to elicit attachment behavior from the caregiver?

Bowlby

At what age is the vision of a child the same as that of an adult?

By their first birthday

Who stated that human facial expressions are inate?

Darwin? or...

Piaget's mechanism of explaining how children shift from one stage of thought to another is known as what?

Equilibration

Which of the following is not a factor that enables new behavior to emerge?

Factors: development of nervous system, body's physical property and possibilities for movement, motivation to reach, environmental support for skill

Which lobe of the brain is involved in voluntary thinking and movement?

Frontal Lobe


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