CH.5

Question 1

The cerebral cortex is involved with all of the following functions except:
- language development
- problem solving
- abstract thought
- homeostasis

Answer 1

homeostasis

Question 2

In Piaget’s substage 6 of sensorimotor development, infants are able to engage in:
- memorization
- symbolic play
- perseveration
- abstract thought

Answer 2

symbolic play

Question 3

All of the following account for the ethnic variations in the development of gross motor skills except
- cultural patterns
- cognitive flexibility
- practice
- parenting practices

Answer 3

cognitive flexibility

Question 4

Recent research on infants’ abilities has revealed that infants can do all of the following simple arithmetic problems, reason about cause-effect relationships, form categories, and think abstractly, EXCEPT:

Answer 4

think abstractly

Question 5

What areas of the brain experience increased myelination shortly before a toddlers’ vocabulary expansion?
- frontal and occipital lobes
- prefrontal and parietal lobes
- prefrontal and ventromedial lobes
- frontal and temporal lobes

Answer 5

frontal and temporal lobes

Question 6

Jesse makes a squeaky sound to which her father responds with a look and a laugh. In turn, Jesse repeats the squeaky noise over and over, and at each time her father looks and laughs. Jesse is demonstrating what Piaget called
- tertiary circular reaction
- secondary circular reaction
- intentionality
- imitation

Answer 6

secondary circular reaction

Question 7

Some researchers posed that infants engage in A-not-B errors not due to lack of memory or representational abilities, but as a result of repetitive motor movements referred to as:
- perseveration
- latency
- permanency
- competencies

Answer 7

perseveration

Question 8

Jackson is new to his day care. When his mother puts him down on the mat to play, he looks up at her for an indication of how to act or feel in his new situation. This is called _____.
- habituation
- disinhibition
- social referencing
- adaptation

Answer 8

social referencing

Question 9

An infant’s heart rate remains slowed as the baby both cognitively and possibly voluntarily processes the stimulus, in this phase of attention.
- stimulus orienting
- attention termination
- sustained attention
- stimulus-detection reflex

Answer 9

sustained attention

Question 10

An infant’s abilities to crawl, stand alone, and walk are closely related to increases in:
- brain size
- center of gravity
- ossification
- muscle mass

Answer 10

muscle mass