Question 1

The perspective on motor development that seeks to explain how motor behaviors are assembled for perceiving and acting is referred to as ________.

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Question 2

Name the theorist who believed that infants assemble motor skills for perceiving and acting. He/she proposed the dynamic systems theory to explain these findings.

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Question 3

Baby Tobias turns his head when his mother strokes his cheek. Tobias also turns his head toward the side that is touched. This reflex is called the ________.

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Question 4

Name the part of the neuron that carries signals away from the cell body.

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Question 5

In the context of reflexes, the ________ enables newborns to get nourishment before they have associated a nipple with food and also serves as a self-soothing or self-regulating mechanism.

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Question 6

While playing with his toy truck on the couch, Nezzy points to the toy truck and says, "Truck go." His father responds to this by saying, "Oh! Did you see the truck going?" In the context of caregiver strategies, this scenario illustrates the strategy of
A) labeling.
B) recasting.
C) overextending.
D) underextending.

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The father is using the strategy of recasting by repeating what the child said in a more grammatically correct way, which helps expand the child's language skills by providing a new model for expressing themselves.

Question 7

Child-directed speech is the
A) ability of parents to understand their children's holographic speech.
B) unique way that parents (and others) talk to babies.
C) continual correcting of children's syntax by parents.
D) special way parents speak to each other in front of their children.

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Child-directed speech refers to the distinctive way that parents and caregivers speak to infants and young children. It is characterized by a higher pitch, exaggerated intonation, slower tempo, simpler vocabulary and sentence structure, and exaggerated facial expressions.

Question 8

Linguist Noam Chomsky said that children are born into the world with a ________, a biological endowment that enables the child to detect certain features and rules of language, including phonology, syntax, and semantics.
A) language acquisition device
B) biological language center
C) primary language center
D) biological language device

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Noam Chomsky's theory proposes that humans have an innate ability, known as the language acquisition device (LAD), which enables them to learn language. The LAD is considered to be a biological endowment that contains universal grammar principles that allow children to acquire language effortlessly and at a rapid pace. Therefore, the correct answer is A, language acquisition device. The other answer choices do not align with Chomsky's theory.

Question 9

Name the nerve cell that handles information processing in the brain.

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Question 10

Name the researcher who carefully observed and documented the development of motor skills in the 1930s. Based on this work, he/she concluded that motor development is entirely due to maturation.

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Question 11

Name the theorists who are renowned for using the "visual cliff" to study the vision of infants.

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Question 12

According to the ________, perception functions to bring organisms in contact with the environment so that they can adapt to it.

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Question 13

In the context of reflexes, the ________ is a neonatal startle response in which a newborn arches its back, throws its head back, flings out its arms and legs, and then pulls its arms and legs close to the center of the body.

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Question 14

Name the developmental sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top-the head-with physical growth in size, weight, and feature differentiation gradually working from top to bottom.

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Question 15

Your ability to see faces and patterns with the right hemisphere of the brain and understand language with the left hemisphere is due to ________.

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Question 16

Name the lobe in the brain that is responsible for voluntary movement and thinking.

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Question 17

Identify the condition that occurs when infants stop breathing, usually during the night, and die suddenly without an apparent cause.

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Question 18

Name the theorist who developed and used the "looking chamber" to study the vision of infants in the early 1960s.

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Question 19

Gustavo believes that motor skills represent solutions to an infant's goals. According to him, when a baby is offered a new toy, the baby attempts to grab the toy while also balancing itself. He believes that this active improvisation and adaptation to achieve one's goal demonstrates that nature, nurture, the infant, and the environment are all working together. Gustavo is a proponent of which theory?

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Question 20

Mariah has suffered damage to the left frontal lobe of her brain. When she tries to speak, she struggles to produce words and is unable to say them correctly. Mariah has sustained injury to the
A) Broca's area.
B) Wernicke's area.
C) SMA area.
D) Morton's area.

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Broca's area is responsible for the production of speech and language comprehension. Damage to this area can result in difficulty producing words or speaking fluently, a condition called Broca's aphasia. Symptoms of Broca's aphasia include slow, effortful speech, difficulty producing words or constructing sentences, and a tendency to use short phrases. Mariah's symptoms are consistent with damage to Broca's area.

Quiz 3: Physical and Cognitive Dvelopment in Infancy