Curve 3-b

Question 1

The fetus’s sense of hearing first begins to develop during the _____ of pregnancy.

Answer 1

third trimester

Question 2

According to Piaget, object permanence does not fully emerge until a child is almost:

Answer 2

2 years old.

Question 3

Preferential-looking studies show newborns do NOT prefer to look at:

Answer 3

fathers instead of mothers.

Question 4

The term referring to the skills involved in managing and decoding our own and other people’s emotions and getting along with other human beings is:

Answer 4

social cognition.

Question 5

Adam, who is a few weeks old, learned to distinguish patterns of sounds and syllables:

Answer 5

after recognizing the rhythm of spoken words.

Question 6

The _____ stage of speech involves the use of a single word to communicate a sentence or a complete thought.

Answer 6

holophrase

Question 7

At first, baby Madeline is interested in the new mobile her mother hangs above her crib. Then she fidgets and looks around for something else. Madeline is experiencing:

Answer 7

habituation.

Question 8

Around the age of 2 months, babies begin to make vowel-like noises called:

Answer 8

cooing.

Question 9

The infant motor milestones of lifting one’s head, pivoting the upper body, sitting, and then standing follow the developmental principle called the:

Answer 9

cephalocaudal sequence.

Question 10

The ____ is the developmental principle that growth occurs from the most interior parts of the body outward.

Answer 10

proximodistal sequence

Question 11

This is the developmental principle that large structures precede increasingly detailed refinements.

Answer 11

mass-to-specific sequence.

Question 12

The social-interactionist perspective emphasizes:

Answer 12

that our motivation to communicate with each other promotes our development of language

Question 13

The least developed sense at birth is:

Answer 13

sight.

Question 14

When you put 5-month-old Clara’s favorite stuffed animal under a blanket, she looks under the cover to find it. According to information processing theorists, Clara is showing the beginnings of:

Answer 14

object permanence

Question 15

A newborn’s senses do NOT include:

Answer 15

motion.

Question 16

_____patterns of child rearing affect sensation, perception, and motor skills.

Answer 16

Cultural

Question 17

Newborns spend the most time looking at:

Answer 17

faces.

Question 18

Early walking:

Answer 18

is unrelated to intelligence test scores.

Question 19

While Kate’s husband was nailing new paneling in the kitchen, her infant son cried because of the hammering noise. Later, after her son became used to the noise, he stopped crying. The infant’s response is as an example of:

Answer 19

habituation.

Question 20

Which developmental principle is demonstrated by the infant motor milestones of lifting one’s head, pivoting the upper body, sitting, and finally standing?

Answer 20

cephalocaudal sequence

Question 21

Sybil is visiting a child development laboratory and observes a researcher working with an 8-month-old baby. The baby is sitting on top of a piece of Plexiglas, which rests partly over a table top and then extends out over the end of the table. The apparatus being used in this experiment is typically called a(n):

Answer 21

visual cliff.

Question 22

A psychologist conducts an experiment in which infants are shown a picture of a dog. The researcher displays the same picture on a computer monitor several times until the infant is bored and shifts her attention away from the monitor. When a new picture replaces the picture of the dog, the infant stares longer at the new picture. The researcher is studying _____ in the infant.

Answer 22

habituation

Question 23

Professor Gomez believes that all humans are born with a biological predisposition to develop language and that a specific region in the brain is highly adapted for language learning. In this respect, Dr. Gomez’s view matches the idea behind:

Answer 23

the language acquisition device (LAD).

Question 24

All healthy infants develop skills in the same sequence, but the age of acquisition varies based on:

Answer 24

culture.