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Nadine's doctor is assessing her fine motor skills.This means that her doctor is going to look at her ability to:


A) coordinate large muscle activity like walking.
B) maintain fine balance on a beam.
C) perform finely tuned movements like using a pencil.
D) perform reflexive behavior like stepping.

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Which of the following statements is true about SIDS?


A) It is the lowest cause of infant deaths in the United States.
B) Its level of risk is high at 36 to 48 months of age for infants.
C) It usually occurs when infants stop breathing,usually during night,and die suddenly without any apparent reason.
D) Its level of risk is high when the infants are sleeping on their backs,in a supine position.

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Which of the following statements about reflexes is true?


A) Reflexive behavior is identical among babies.
B) Some reflexes persist through life.
C) All reflexes have survival value today.
D) All newborn reflexes disappear a few months after birth.

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Yasmine was born in Honduras,and has a medical condition that causes her vital organs to collect the nutrients that are present and deprive other parts of the body of them.This condition,known as _____,often has the telltale sign of a greatly expanded abdomen.


A) beriberi
B) kwashiorkor
C) marasmus
D) sudden infant death syndrome

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_____ is the recognition that an object remains the same even though the retinal image of the object changes as you move toward or away from the object.


A) Shape constancy
B) Perceptual disparity
C) Size constancy
D) Perceptual occlusion

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Which of the following conditions is the highest cause of infant death in the United States,with nearly 3,000 infant deaths annually attributed to it?


A) Shaken baby syndrome
B) Sudden infant death syndrome
C) Down syndrome
D) Marasmus

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The theorists who developed the ecological view of perceptual development in infancy are:


A) Arnold Gesell and Jean Piaget.
B) Virginia Satir and Jay Haley.
C) Eleanor and James Gibson.
D) Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud.

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_____ are built-in reactions to stimuli; they govern the newborn's movements,which are automatic and beyond the newborn's control.


A) Instincts
B) Reflexes
C) Impulses
D) Urges

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Fourteen-year-old Michael Rehbein had the left hemisphere of his brain removed to end uncontrollable seizures.His right hemisphere gradually began to reorganize and take over functions that normally occur in the brain's left hemisphere.This case study is cited in the chapter in order to demonstrate that:


A) the brain is both flexible and resilient.
B) myelination varies in different areas of the brain.
C) the effects of deprived environments on the brain are irreversible.
D) the brain can adapt and function only when whole.

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Which of the following statements is true about specialization of function in a hemisphere of the cerebral cortex?


A) Complex thinking is mostly carried out by the right hemisphere,while the left hemisphere typically deals with motor control.
B) Logical thinkers are usually "left-brained."
C) Creative thinkers are usually "right-brained."
D) Complex thinking in normal people is the outcome of communication between both hemispheres of the brain.

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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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Which of the following statements about infants and REM sleep is TRUE?


A) When infants are three months old,the amount of time they spend in REM sleep begins to increase.
B) Most infants spend about 70 percent of their sleeping time in REM sleep.
C) REM sleep might promote the brain's development in infancy.
D) Older adults are the only group that spends more time in REM sleep than infants.

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Winnie is considering the use of anesthesia during the circumcision of her newborn son.She wants to know if newborns can feel pain.What would you tell her?


A) Yes; recent research indicates that infants can feel pain.
B) No; infants cannot feel pain.
C) Maybe; research on the matter is inconclusive as of now.
D) Maybe; the level of pain felt depends on the newborn's resilience.

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

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John believes that his six month old,Ali,was born with the ability to perceive the world in an organized way.In the field of perceptual development John would be described as a(n) :


A) nativist.
B) empiricist.
C) naturalist.
D) perceptioniset.

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The interpretation of sensory information is called:


A) sensation.
B) reception.
C) perception.
D) transition.

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Ingrid is getting ready to leave the hospital with her newborn and asks her doctor about SIDS.Her pediatrician suggests several things she can do to reduce the likelihood of SIDS in her infant.List five things that Ingrid can do to reduce the likelihood of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

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Five things Ingrid can do to reduce the ...

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

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Sudden inf...

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The fiber that carries signals toward the neuron's cell body is called a(n) :


A) axon.
B) dendrite.
C) neurotransmitter.
D) synapse.

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