Infants Development

Question 1

Growths Norms

Answer 1

Compare children to the norms for their age.

Question 2

Cephalocaudal

Answer 2

This describes the tendency for development to occur ‘head to tail’.

Question 3

Proximodistal

Answer 3

Development form the center outward.

Question 4

Synaptic Pruning

Answer 4

The connections between cells (synapses) that are not being used are ‘pruned’.

Question 5

Lateralization

Answer 5

Specialization of the two hemispheres of the brain.

Question 6

Plasticity

Answer 6

Brain regions can adapt to take over functions when other regions are damaged or incapacitated.

Question 7

Experience-expectant

Answer 7

Stimulation, exploration, experiences such as language.

Question 8

Experience-dependent

Answer 8

Varies, skills that can be learned if experienced.

Question 9

Mirror Neurons

Answer 9

Fire when copying an action, the basis of social abilities.

Question 10

Gross Motor Development

Answer 10

Mobility related.

Question 11

Fine Motor Development

Answer 11

Smaller movements.

Question 12

Piaget’s Stages:

Sensorimotor Stage

Answer 12

0-2 years.

Experience the world through the senses.

Question 13

Schemes

Answer 13

An organized way of making sense of experience.

Question 14

Adaptation

Answer 14

Building schemes though interaction with the environment.

Question 15

Adaptation:

Assimilation

Answer 15

Fit things into our schemes.

Question 16

Adaptation:

Accommodation

Answer 16

Change our schemes to fit experience.

Question 17

Organization

Answer 17

Interconnections between schemes.

Question 18

Goal-Directed Behavior

Answer 18

The understanding of the control that they have over environment.

Question 19

Object Permanence

Answer 19

A - not - B search error - searching in first hiding place after seeing it moved.

Question 20

Bayley Scales

Answer 20

To assess infant and toddler intelligence.

Question 21

Bayley-III

Answer 21

Subtests: Cognitive, Language And Motor.

Can also include Social-Emotional and Adaptive Behavior scales.

Question 22

Noam Chomsky

Answer 22

Language is an innately human ability.

Question 23

Language Development:

Interactionist Perspective

Answer 23

Langauge is acquired through interactions between internal and external processes.