Question 1

________ skills refer to coordinated movements of the muscles and limbs.

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Question 2

If a child is in a state of ________, her eyes will be open but unfocused, and her arms and legs will move in bursts of uncoordinated motion.

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Question 3

The ________ appears when you stroke a child's foot and the toes fan outward.

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Question 4

Visual expansion and motion parallax are both examples of kinetic cues, because they both involve ________ to help one estimate depth.

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Question 5

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

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Question 6

Some researchers have coined the term ________ to refer to the fact that many children with autism spectrum disorder seem to lack a theory of mind.

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Question 7

In experience-________ growth, the wiring of the brain is organized by experiences that are common to most humans.

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Question 8

Intersensory ________ is the theory that an infant's sensory systems are attuned to information that is presented simultaneously to different sensory modes.

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Question 9

A waning of newborn reflexes may be partially responsible for the fact that ________ is most likely to occur between the ages of 2 and 4 months.

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Question 10

A child's awareness of his/her own existence is usually well-established by the age of ________ years.

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Question 11

Paula is a developmentalist who believes that learning to walk involves many distinct skills that are organized and reorganized over time to meet a specific goal. Clearly, Paula is a proponent of the ________ theory.

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Question 12

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

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Question 13

Breathing, heart rate, muscle tone, presence of reflexes, and ________ are all parts of an Apgar assessment.

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Question 14

You are looking out into your yard at a beautiful Japanese maple tree. You notice that from the trunk extends many branches with lovely purple leaves on them. The leaves are capturing raindrops from the current storm. If this tree were actually a neuron, the leaves that capture incoming information would be the ________.

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Question 15

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

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Question 16

Modern industrial cultures tend to favor people who are ______-handed, as you may see from the way simple objects and machines are often designed.

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Question 17

If you want to make sure that your neurons can send neural messages at their very fastest speed, you would want to see that the neurons were surrounded by/wrapped in ________.

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Question 18

A child's ability to use language that indicates an awareness of the difference between their physical and mental selves shows that they have developed a(n) ________.

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Question 19

________ is accepted as the best way to make sure a baby gets adequate nutrition and proper antibodies. It also helps prevent diarrhea and constipation which, in extreme cases, can be lethal.

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Question 20

By the time a baby reaches its first birthday, it will spend about 25% of its sleep time in ________ sleep, which is similar to sleep patterns of an adult.

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Quiz 3: Tools for Exploring the World: Physical, Perceptual, and Motor Development