Psych 220 set 2
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
