Exam 8: Early Childhood: Biosocial Development

In dealing with childhood accidents, public health workers prefer to use the term _____ rather than accident prevention.

Hospitalization is an example of secondary prevention of child maltreatment.

Drowning is a leading cause of unintentional death for children between the ages of 1 and 4 in the United States.

Which statement about left-handed people is TRUE?

The major nutritional deficit in early childhood in developed countries is insufficient _____.

What role does the immature prefrontal cortex play in young children's blossoming creativity?

Which factor is a reason parents should not try to change their child's handedness?

The specialization in certain functions by each side of the brain is _____.

Which of the following people are most likely to have a thicker corpus callosum?

As the _____ cortex matures, social understanding develops.

An example of a fine motor skill is _____.

The long band of nerve fibers that connects the brain's hemispheres is _____.

An example of a gross motor skill is _____.

In most adults, the brain is organized in such a way that the areas of language development are located in the _____ hemisphere of the brain.

The _____ is the part of the brain that allows children to coordinate functions that involve both halves of the body.

Children are more likely to die of _____.

Regis, a 6-year-old, can correctly name objects, catch a ball and throw it, and write his ABCs in proper sequence. His younger brother, Mark, is much less speedy and skillful in all of these areas. What is the explanation for Regis's superior performance?

Child _____ occurs when a parent fails to fulfill a child's basic needs.

In order to be substantiated child maltreatment, _____ must be verified by the authorities.

Researchers had 4-year-old children sort picture cards by shape and then asked the children to sort the same cards by color. They found that children under the age of 4 had difficulty changing to a new sorting pattern. This outcome illustrates the 4-year-old's tendency for_____.