1. The part of the newborn that is the least developed is the 2. Most children experience several different kinds of nonparental care is one of the
... [Show More] difficulties in studying the effects of ? 3. The synaptogenesis/pruning cycle increases the of the infant's brain. 4. Why can infants bounce back from head injury more easily than adolescents and adults can? 5. Nathan is a newborn. If his mother picks him up cortex nonparental care efficiency Their brains have greater neuroplas- ticity he will cry less lat- promptly when he begins crying . er in infancy 6. One of the reasons that manipulative skills improve in the first two years is that 7. During infancy, females appear to be ahead of boys in the development of 8. Which of these whoud not be included in a full set of childrens immunizations in canada? hep b, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, smallpox, rubella 9. There is a correlation between the frequency of ear imfections in infancy and later learning disabilities, because ear infections 10. Premature infants are maturationally younger than their full-term peers, and this comparative lag in development affects the child's . the wrist bones progressively sep- arate manipulative skills smallpox interfere with hear- ing and language development physical capabili- ties 11. 2,3 Though preterm infants lad developmentally in the early years., by age _ to _ the developmental differ- ences are minimized 12. If you compare a preterm infant , born at the same time, and correct for the preterm infant's , developmental differences are . gestational age, minimized 13. at birth, visual acuity is in the range of 20/200 to 20/400 14. Which visual abilitiy appears to be almost identical in newborns and adults? color sensation 15. Newborn babies prefer sweet tastes, true or false? true 16. no longer noticing a ticking clock after a few moments is an example of 17. the compensating with an improved ability to discrim- inate among human speech sounds is not a charec- toristic of 18. The formation of a single perception of a stimulus that is based on information from more than one sense is called . 19. newborns having so many sensory abilities early in life supports 20. Lucy discovered that by kicking the side of her crib, she could cause the mobile that is mounted on it to shake. Since then, she kicks the side of the crib every time her parents put her to bed and squeals with joy when she sees the mobile shaking. Lucy's behaviour fits Piaget's notion of a 21. Approx. how old is an infant who has graduated from trial-and-error exploration to problem solving by thinking about solutions to tasks? habituation early visual depri- vation intermodal per- ception Nativists argu- ments secondary circular reaction 8 to 12 months of age 22. It can be said that the best thing infants learn from watching tv is . television watch- ing behaviour 23. Schematic learning assumes that babies attempt to categorize their experiences 24. True and False: Infants younger than 3 months of age do not form memories 25. Researchers have found that individual differences in the rate of that infants display predict scores on intelligence tests later in childhood. 26. Scores on infant intelligence do not predict scores on tests later in childhood very well because infant tests rely on false habituation babies' sensory and motor skills 27. what does an infant cooing usually represent? a state of pleasure 28. From an infant of 6 months, we would expect to hear? babbling 29. True or False: Children who show the expressive style acquire language more rapidly false 30. Inflections are grammatical mark- ers 31. True and False: The word order in infants' telegraphic speech is the same in all cultures 32. The theorist who claimed that responding to the in- fant's needs will help the infant learn to trust the world aorund him or her was . 33. infants are biologically predisposed to form attach- ment relationships with caregivers best fits the perspective? false Erikson ethological 34. synchrony Tom smiles, raises his eyebrows, and opens his eyes wide as he bends to speak to his infant is not an example of . 35. Which relationship qualities of characteristics would not be included in John Bowlby's or Mark Ainsworth's descriptions of attacment relationships? (sorry, this one didnt transfer well) 36. A parent who picks the baby up when he cries or talks to the baby when she vocalizes is diplaying key ingredients for . 37. Which characteristics would have the most negative impact upon a mother's ability to form a secure attach- ment with her infant? 38. True and False: Securely attached infants become adolescents who have more liberal sexual attitudes 39. Samir displays irregular eating and sleeping patterns and is very irritable. This infant would be considered according to the categories pro- posed by Thomas and Chess 40. Carrie tends to be an irritable, fussy child. SHe has a low threshold of frustration, and when she is hungry or wishes to be picked up, she very quickly becomes loudly angry. How would developmentalists describe this aspect of Carrie's temperament? 41. What is the general summary conclusion of research that has examined the consistency of temperament over time? use of the other as a safe base for ex- ploring the rest of the world secure attachment the mother is de- pressed false difficult negative emotion- ality Researchers have found consistency and stability of temperament, in- cluding qualities of inhibition and dif- ficultness, across infancy and child- hood 42. Which of the Piagetetian milestones is associated with the development of the subjective self in infancy? 43. Once a baby recognizes herself in a mirror, she has developed . object perma- nence the objective self 44. What would be considered a self-conscious emotion? shame 45. Nonparental care is associated with increases in in an infant's body 46. Based upon the typical motor milestones of infancy and early childhood, which of the following would be the most developmentally appropriate gift for a 3- to 4- year old? tricycle large truck set of stacking blocks needle and yarn stichery kit 47. What is most likely responsible for early childhood im- provements in attention, concentration and memory? 48. What is the most prevalent form of abuse of children in Canada? 49. Which of the following is not considered assosiated with a child's higher rick of being abused? - being the oldest child in the family - a difficult temperament - a physical disability - a mental disability 50. Most people report that their earliest memory oc- curred when they were about 3 years old. Why? cortisol tricycle myelinization of brain structures neglect being the oldest child in the family Links between the hippocampus and the cerebral cortex develop around age 3 51. Which activity would a 5 year old be more likely to be able to do that a 3 year old? 52. The 4 to 5 year olds cognitive capacity to look at a situation from another person's point of view and determine what kind of information would cause that person to belive something that isn't true, is referred to as . 53. A set of ideas that explainsother people's ideas, be- liefs, desires, and behaviours is . 54. According to Case, preschoolers do not perform well on Piaget's tasks because of inefficiencies in 55. Daniel is pretending that one of his blocks is a car. Daniel is exhibiting the func- tion. 56. Marina complains that she has too many peas to eat in response her mother transfers the peas to a larger plate and says now you don't have as many peas eat up Marina responds by rapidly and happily polishing off the peas Marina responds positively to her moth- er's ploy because she lacks 57. When Mickey was age 5, he gave his younger sister a rock for her birthday. Mickey didn't understand why his sister didn't liker her gift, because he thought the rock was cool. This represents what type of thinking? 58. Which of the following is the most developmentally advanced use of inflections? I playing. horsies. It breaked. I played. thread beads on a string the false belief principle theory of mind short-term storage space semiotic conservation egocentric I played 59. What is phonological awareness? children's under- standing of the 60. A 3 year old who uses language as a guide to solving problems, such as saying "This piece goes here" to himself as he assembles a puzzle, is using which of the following? 61. Simon is 3 years old and can recite several nusery rhymes from memory. Research indicates that Si- mon is likely to have an easier time learning to than children who are unfamilier with nursery rhymes 62. Which catagory of tests, which probably would not be part of a current-day IQ test for children? 63. The concept of the reaction range suggests that the upper and lower boundries of a child's intelli- gence are established by , and the child's actual level of intelligence is determined by . sound patterns of the language they are acquiring private speech read concrete reason- ing her genes, enviro- ment 64. Reasearch on preschool interventions shows that educational inter- ventions can raise test scores 65. How did Erikson describe the developmental crisis of the period from age 1 to age 3? 66. The text suggests that both Freud and Erikson belived that the key to the social development of 2 to 6 year olds is autonomy versus shame and doubt striking a ba- lence between the child's emerging skills and parents need for control 67. What could be an example of a social convention? Walking on the right side of a crowded hallway 68. According to the text, preschoolers who are securely attached to their parents have positive re- lationships with teachers 69. Which parenting style has been associated with high- authoritative er levels of self-esteem, better school performance, and more compliance with parents 70. Six year old Bettina asks her mother if she can stay authoritarian up until 9 p.m. on Friday night tio watch a special educational TV program. Her mother says "Your bed- time is 8:00, and rules are rules. Get ready for bed immediatley or you'll have to be grounded to your room all day tommorow." What is Bettina's mother's parenting style? 71. The most common Canadian family structure is married-couple 72. True and False: Compared to children living with false both biological parents, children living in post-di- vorce/seperation custody experience higher levels of unsocial behaviour 73. What could be a social-cognitive explaination for chil- When parents re- dren's aggression? inforce their chil- dren's aggression, the children de- velop patterns of aggressive behav- iour. 74. Actions that are intended to help another person in prosocial behav- some way are called . iours 75. True and False: "I am good at drawing" would be true something that you may expect a preschooler to de- cribe herself as 76. self-regulation Judy is sad, so she turns on the television to watch a favorite cartoon is an example of 77. A little boy chooses a toy that he belives is boys and rejects a shirt based on its color, saying "That's for girls!" He is using to process information about gender 78. a child's ability to lebel his or her sex correctly and to identify other people as women or men and girls or boys is an accurate discription of ? 79. If Leila is in Kohlberg's gender stability stage, she may not understand 80. True and False: The preference for same-sex compan- ions appears very early in life 81. True and False: Sex-typed behaviour appears earlier in girls than in boys. a gender schema gender identity that she will still be a girl even if she wears boys cloth- ing true false [Show Less]