Chapter 5 and 6 Review

Infant intelligence scores do not reflect true abilities because

Between 6 and 8 months, infants start to screen out sounds not used in their native language.

Which of the following motor skill develops first.

Baby fat helps an infant maintain a constant body temperature.

Which of the following is an example of a gross-motor skill?

By age 6, children speak in elaborate sentences and are skilled in conversation.

Perceptual development is a built-in tendency to seek out order.

Deaf infants not exposed to sign language will stop babbling entirely.

Which motor skill plays the greatest role in infant cognitive development?

Ben use the word "close" to apply to closing a book, turning off lights, and tying shoe. This is

In the U.S. 77% of mothers begin breastfeeding after birth, but 1/3 stop at 6 mo.

In cultures where mothers carry their infants on hips or slings for long periods

Mental representation enables toddlers to solve advanced object permanence problems.

Infants and toddlers grow

Dynamic systems theory shows us why motor development

In telegraphic speech, a 2 year-old will utter "go car".

Infants learn and retain information just by watching events.

Between 7 and 9 months, infants begin to divide speech stream into word-like units.

Infants use vision more than any other sense to explore their environment.

Classical conditioning helps infants form social relationships.

Piaget said that during ___, toddlers use their current schemes to interpret the external world.

Sam uses the word doll only to refer to a rag doll he carries every day. This is an example of

Romanian orphans adopted before 6 months of age showed cognitive catch-up.

Baby Ronald demonstrates contrast sensitivity when he looks more intently at

Skeletal age is not the best estimate of a child's physical maturity.

A kitten in the dark for fours weeks after birth experiences permanent visual brain damage. This provides evidence of

If part of the cortex is damaged, other parts can take over tasks it would have handled.

Most researchers believe infants have some built-in cognitive equipment to make sense of experience.

Additional research on infant cognitive development suggests mastery of object permanence is gradual.

Piaget said the babies make the A-not-B error because