Exam 7: Parenting Infants and Toddlers

In a landmark study on socioeconomic differences in infants, researchers found that children of parents on welfare heard about 600 words per hour, while children from affluent families heard ______ words. Toddlers that hear more words have larger expressive vocabularies and therefore reap a cognitive benefit.

Compare and contrast the parenting experience of rearing an infant and a toddler. In what ways do children at different ages require different parental behaviors?

The Period of Purple Crying is a concept created to educate parents about excessive crying. The U in PURPLE stands for unsettled.

The "Mozart effect" is the idea that young children who ______ Mozart's music ______.

Julie is a mother to an infant. In a meetup with one of her friends Laurie, who is also a mother of an infant, they discuss how much time they spend with their children on the weekends. They find that Julie spends about a half hour more time in social interaction with her infant than Laurie does. We can conclude that Julie is most likely unemployed and therefore can afford that extra time.