chapter 5 child psych – Flashcards
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Cephalocaudal growth refers to growth that moves from the
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top of the body toward the bottom of the body.
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Ramona could lift her head before she could crawl. This is an example of
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cephalocaudal development.
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The average North American newborn is _____ inches long and weighs _____ pounds.
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20; 7.5
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Children typically double their birth weight by the age of _____ and nearly triple it by the age of _____.
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4 months; 1 year
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By the age of two, a child's brain is about _____ percent of its adult weight.
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75
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The prefrontal cortex is involved with:
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higher level thinking and self regulation
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Christina, a newborn, she sleeps about 18 hours a day. Christina
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is sleeping about as much as the typical newborn
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Newborns will typically spend approximately _____ of their night in REM sleep, whereas adults spend approximately _____ of their night in REM sleep.
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one-half; one-fifth
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Over the years, experts have
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?????disagreed on whether shared sleeping arrangements are beneficial or detrimental to children.
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The highest cause of infant death in the United States is
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Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
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Nutritionists recommend that infants consume approximately _____ calories per day for each pound they weigh
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50
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Marasmus and kwashiorkor are life-threatening conditions that can result from
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deficiencies in protein.
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Liana wanted to elicit the rooting reflex in her newborn, Paula. To do this she
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stroked Paula's cheek.
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Anna put her three-week-old infant in her crib and then, as she was leaving the infant's room, she accidentally dropped a book. What reflex response would you expect from her infant?
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Moro reflex
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Buttoning a shirt is an example of
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a fine motor skill.
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Habituation is
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a decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus.
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In the Gibsons' theory, an affordance
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is an opportunity for interaction.
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At birth, an infant's vision is about
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a lot less clear than a normal adult's.
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In the Gibson and Walk visual cliff experiment, most of the six- to twelve-month-old babies who were encouraged to crawl off the edge of the visual cliff
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did not crawl out onto the glass.
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How do we know that fetuses can hear before birth? Because newborns
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show preferences for sounds presented repeatedly before birth.
