Chapter 3 Human Development
The average newborn triples his weight by:
1 year
Approximately how many hours per day does the average new born spend asleep?
15 to 17
Children reach half their adult heigh by the age _____ years.
2 years
A newborn's brain weight is _____ an adult's brain weight.
25% of
Clara's weight is in the 30th percentile. This means that ____ of all babies her age weigh less than she does and ___ of all babies her age weigh more than she does.
30; 70
The average North American newborn weighs ____ pounds at birth.
7 pounds
The area in the brain that plans, anticipates, and controls impulses is the ____ cortex.
Prefrontal
A hypothesis that has been repeatedly disproved is that the MMR vaccine causes
autism
According to Chomsky's theory of language acquisition
children have an inborn ability to learn language
Brain weight triples in size during the first two years of life primarily because of the growth of:
dendrites
Binocular vision refers to the ability to:
focus on an object with both eyes
James uses the word "more" to mean "I want another cookie". In this case, "more" is a:
holophrase
when the immune system is primed to resist a particular disease, the process is called:
immunization
Gross motor skills are
large movements
Brain cells are called:
neurons
The mental processing of sensory information is called
perception
Breast milk
provides antibodies to fight diseases
The process through which unused and misconnected dendrites atrophy and die is called:
pruning
The usual order (4) of the development of spoken language in an infant is:
reflexes, cooing, babbling and spoken words.
Object permanence is demonstrated by an infant who:
searches for a toy that has fallen in sight
An infant's inborn drive to remedy deficits is called:
self-righting
Whenever the eyes, ears, tongue, skin or mouth detect a stimulus a _______ has occurred
sensation
Piaget called an infant's first period of cognitive development:
sensorimotor intelligence
A life-threatening condition that occurs when infants are shaken back and forth sharply and quickly is called:
shaken baby syndrome
Neurons in the brain meet at "intersections: called:
synapses
The outer layers of the brain are referred to as:
the cortex
The brain develops extremely quickly in the first few years, but not all of this growth is permanent. Due to its rapidity and temporary nature, this rapid growth is called
transient exuberance
The sense that is the least developed at birth is an infant's:
vision