Exam 3: Tools for Exploring the World: Physical, Perceptual, and Motor Development in Infancy and Early Childhood.

Chucky is a three-year-old who is very easily upset. For the most part, he likes to sit and play with building toys for hours at a time. When he goes to new places, he gets angry easily and avoids moving around or interacting with other people. Given this information, how would you expect Chucky to be evaluated on Rothbart's three dimensions of temperament?

Which BEST exemplifies experience-expectant growth?

The wrinkled surface of the brain, made up of about 10 billion neurons, is called the

The cerebral cortex contains two halves-a left and a right-which are called _______________.

Most babies would willingly cross the shallow side of a visual cliff, but would not cross the deep side.

When a baby is crying and is having difficult being soothed, many parents prefer to use a technique called _______, which provides warmth and tactile stimulation that help to calm the baby.

Because children with autism spectrum disorders tend to master false belief tasks very slowly, researchers have speculated that an absence of ____ is the primary component of these conditions.

By about ____ months of age, different circuits in the brain begin to control infants' looking at faces, allowing infants to distinguish different faces..

A judgment of depth using motion parallax relies heavily on the apparent ____ of an object.

You would think that balance is something that, once learned, you will have mastered for your entire life. In fact, however, balance must be relearned for sitting, crawling, walking, and other postures. Why is this?

Visual expansion and motion parallax are called kinetic cues because they both involve _______________ to help one estimate depth.

If an infant's cry starts softly and gradually becomes more intense and occurs when the infant is hungry or tired, (s)he is producing a(n) _______________ cry.

Which child's vision would have most recently matched that of an adult with 20/20 vision?

There are many jokes out there about the advantage that having opposable thumbs gives human beings over most animals. As your authors note, however, it is not until the age of ____ that children actually start to use their thumbs as part of the grasping process!

Jimmy is only three days old, but he is making a high-pitched cry, is moving his arms and legs back and forth, and has an elevated heart rate. It is likely that Jimmy is currently

Cher offers her 10-day-old daughter, Chastity, a taste of some juice she is drinking. Based on the fact that Chastity makes a terrible face when she tastes the juice, you would suspect that it was

The stepping reflex is a precursor to walking.

The visual _______________ is an apparatus that was designed by Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk to assess depth perception in babies.

Roughly 90% of a newborn's sleep time is spent in a non-Rapid Eye Movement (non-REM) state.

According to ____ systems theory, learning to walk involves many distinct skills that are organized and reorganized over time to meet specific goals.