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Habituation and recovery make learning more efficient by


A) helping us anticipate what event is about to happen next.
B) focusing our attention on those aspects of the environment we know least about.
C) helping us generalize newly learned behaviors to unfamiliar contexts.
D) influencing the occurrence of stimulus events in the environment.

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Which of the following motor achievements, on average, occurs last?


A) grasps cube
B) sits alone
C) rolls from back to side
D) rolls from side to back

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In Wayne Dennis's research, Iranian babies who spent their days lying on their backs


A) learned to walk by 16 months of age.
B) scooted in a sitting position rather than crawled on their hands and knees when they first moved on their own.
C) rarely attempted to reach or grasp at moving objects.
D) transitioned from crawling to walking within several weeks of adoption.

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Three-month-old Royal holds his rattle and shakes it. He is most likely using


A) the pincer grasp.
B) the ulnar grasp.
C) gross-motor skills.
D) prereaching.

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B

In __________, infants act on the environment, and stimuli that follow their behavior change the probability that the behavior will occur again.


A) classical conditioning
B) operant conditioning
C) habituation
D) recovery

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Newborns prefer to look at photos and simplified drawings of faces with features arranged


A) upright.
B) upside down.
C) sideways.
D) with the eyes closed.

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Sweet liquid increases the occurrence of the sucking response in baby Basil. Sweet liquid is a(n)


A) punisher.
B) conditioned response.
C) reinforcer.
D) unconditioned response.

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ERP brain-wave recordings reveal that around 5 months, babies


A) become sensitive to syllable stress patterns in their own language.
B) begin to prefer the sound of their mother's voice.
C) divide the speech stream into wordlike units.
D) have no statistical learning capacity.

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Which of the following infants is the most likely to engage in a game of pat-a-cake with a caregiver?


A) Yolanda, age 4 months
B) Xavier, age 6 months
C) Juanita, age 8 months
D) Zeb, age 10 months

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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) usually occurs


A) during the day.
B) during the second year of life.
C) in healthy infants with no signs of physical problems.
D) between ages 2 and 4 months.

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By __________, infants recognize the same melody when it is played in different keys.


A) 2 to 4 months
B) 4 to 6 months
C) 6 to 8 months
D) the end of the first year

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Baby Charlotte prefers looking at a checkerboard with many small squares compared to looking at one with a few large squares. Charlotte is demonstrating


A) contrast sensitivity.
B) pictorial depth perception.
C) shape sensitivity.
D) binocular depth perception.

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Right before baby Dom's mother leaves for work every morning, she takes her car keys off of a hook on the wall. As soon as Dom's mother unhooks the keys, Dom cries. In this example, __________ is the conditioned stimulus.


A) Dom's mother leaving for work
B) Dom's mother unhooking the keys
C) Dom's crying
D) morning time

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B

Which of the following pairs are examples of fine-motor activities?


A) sitting and crawling
B) standing and grasping
C) reaching and grasping
D) walking and crawling

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In some hospitals, health professionals use the NBAS to


A) measure habituation and recovery to visual stimuli.
B) demonstrate to parents the capacities of their newborn infant.
C) measure the newborn's physical condition at 1 and 5 minutes after birth.
D) teach new mothers how to breastfeed their infants.

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The newborn baby responds to touch, especially around the


A) eyes, ears, and soles of the feet.
B) eyes, palms, and genitals.
C) feet, stomach, and head.
D) mouth, palms, and soles of the feet.

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Which of the following is a protective measure to reduce the incidence of SIDS?


A) wrapping the baby in warm clothing and blankets
B) pacifier use
C) stomach sleeping
D) use of soft bedding

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B

Which of the following statements is true regarding adult responsiveness to infant cries?


A) A baby's cry stimulates stronger feelings of arousal and discomfort in men than women.
B) Parents who score low in empathy are most likely to respond quickly to infant crying.
C) Compared to non-depressed mothers, depressed mothers tend to be more sensitive to their infant's crying.
D) As babies get older, parents react to more subtle cues in the cry, which help them figure out what is wrong.

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Habituation studies test


A) recall memory.
B) imitation.
C) operant responses.
D) recognition memory.

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Babies with poor sleep organization are likely to


A) nap excessively during the day.
B) grow out of it by the end of the first year.
C) be behaviorally disorganized.
D) be cognitively advanced.

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