Question 1

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 2

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

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Question 3

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 4

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.

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Question 5

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

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Question 6

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

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Question 7

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

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Question 8

You are looking out into your yard at a beautiful Japanese maple tree. You notice the tree has 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 9

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 10

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 11

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 12

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

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Question 13

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 14

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 15

_______________ is accepted as the best way to make sure a baby gets adequate nutrition and proper antibodies.

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Question 16

If an infant 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 17

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

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Question 18

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

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Question 19

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 20

By the time a baby reaches his first birthday, he 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 in Infancy and Early Childhood.