Psy 230

Before the age of 2, children who observe an object moved from one place to another will often search the first place and not the second place for the object. This is referred to as:

A not B error

The area of the brain that is responsible for responding to the amygdala and the hippocampus to produce the appropriate hormones in activation of other parts of the brain and body is the:

hypothalamus

One of the major differences between implicit and explicit memories is:

implicit memories are not verbal.

When infants master the pincer movement, they can:

feed themselves

In many developing nations, it can often be difficult for families and especially children to receive the sustenance they require. This persistent difficulty can lead to:

protein-calorie malnutrition.

In almost every language, the name of each significant caregiver and sibling is learned between:

12 - 18 months

Fifty percent of all babies master walking backward by _____ months.

15

About 50 percent of all babies will be able to stack two blocks by the age of _____ months.

15 months

What defines the condition called "wasting"?

2 or more standard deviations below average

By 24 months, most children are about _____ percent of their adult height.

50

The area of the brain where thinking, feeling, and sensing are involved is the:

Cortex

At 18 months, Jada uses the word <i>diddy</i> to mean "I want a piece of candy." This is an example of a:

Holophase

Which of the following is NOT an identified theory of language learning?

Infants understand language because of brain maturation.

What happens when a child is able to speak about 50 words?

Language acquisition increases dramatically.

Which researcher is known for the innovative experiments in which 3-month-old infants learned to move a mobile by kicking their legs?

Rovee-Collier

_____ was once the most fatal disease for children in history but has since been almost completely eliminated in the Americas.

SmallPox

When infant motor skills are compared around the world, the earliest independent walkers are seen in:

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Which of the following is NOT true about 12-month-olds?

They will focus intently on new stimuli and then turn away.

MLU is considered an accurate way to measure a child's language progress for every culture because:

a child's grammar has a positive correlation to sentence length.

The area of the brain that is considered the central processor of memory is the:

amygdala

Part of normal brain development is the loss of unused dendrite connections. This loss, however, is not a degradation of brain power because with it there is a corresponding improvement in the:

areas of the brain that allow for further growth.

Jean Piaget was a theorist of:

cognitive

What is an infant's first means of communication?

crying

A sequence in which an infant sees someone do something and then performs the same action later is called:

deferred imitation.

Doctors worldwide recommend that mothers exclusively breast-feed for the first:

four to six months

Although a child's height and weight compared to national norms is usually a good indicator of whether the child suffers from malnutrition, it is possible that a child's low measurements are due more simply to:

genetics

Word order, prefixes, suffixes, intonation, verb forms, pronouns, negations, prepositions, and articles are called:

grammar

Later experiments conducted to replicate Piaget's findings were inconsistent with the conclusions of Piaget by demonstrating that infants:

have some understanding of object permanence long before 8 months

Information is carried from one neuron to another by:

neurotransmitter

According to research, bottle-feeding is recommended only:

when an infant's mother has some condition that makes her milk unhealthy.