Chapter 3

Question 1

The cries of healthy infants tend to be shrill and piercing?

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Like adults, newborns relax their facial muscles in response to sweetness, purse their lips when the taste is sour,
and show a distinct arch-like mouth opening when it is bitter.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Newborns sleep about 22 hours a day.

Answer 3

False 16-18 hrs

Question 4

Vision is the least developed of the newborn baby’s senses?

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Researchers believe that the stimulation of REM sleep is vital for growth of the central nervous system.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Newborns’ eye movements are surprisingly quick and accurate.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Newborns’ dual attraction to the odors of their mother and of the lactating breast helps them locate an appropriate
food source and, in the process, begin to distinguish their caregiver from other people.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Young infants listen longer to non speech sounds than to human speech.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

In many tribal and village societies and non-Western developed nations, infants spend most of the day and night in
close physical contact with caregivers.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

At birth, infants are insensitive to pain.

Answer 10

False