Chapter 3

Question 1

Cephalocaudal

Answer 1

Sequence in which the earliest growth always occurs at the top, beginning with the head

Question 2

Proximodistal

Answer 2

Sequence in which growth starts at the center of the body and moves toward the extremities

Question 3

Frontal Lobe

Answer 3

Associated with rewards, attention, long term memory, planning. Speech Production

Question 4

Parietal Lobe

Answer 4

Sensory information from different regions of the brain. Spatial sense and navigation

Question 5

Occipital Lobe

Answer 5

Visual processing center

Question 6

Temporal Lobe

Answer 6

Auditory perception, hearing, Speech and vision

Question 7

Pruning

Answer 7

Unused connections are replaced by other pathways or disappear

Question 8

Prefrontal cortex

Answer 8

Area of the brain where higher-level thinking and self regulation occurs

Question 9

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Dynamic systems theory

Answer 10

Infant assemble motor skills for perceiving and acting, which are coupled together

Question 11

Dynamic systems theory

Answer 11

Infant assemble motor skills for perceiving and acting, which are coupled together

Question 12

Gross motor skill

Answer 12

Skills that involve large-muscle activities

Question 13

Fine motor skills

Answer 13

Finely tune movements

Question 14

sensation

Answer 14

Occurs when information interacts with sensory receptors (eyes, ears, tongue)

Question 15

Perception

Answer 15

Is the interpretation of what is sensed

Question 16

Ecological view

Answer 16

GIBSONS-perceptual system can select from the rich information that the environment provides

Question 17

Visual Preference mehtod

Answer 17

Infants look at different things for different lengths of time

Question 18

Orienting response

Answer 18

Determine if an infant can see or hear a stimulus

Question 19

Habituation

Answer 19

Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentation of the stimulus

Question 20

Dishabituation

Answer 20

Recovery of a habituated response after a change in stimulation

Question 21

Schemes

Answer 21

Actions or mental representation that organize knowledge

Question 22

A-not-B error

Answer 22

Tendency of infants to reach where an object was located earlier rather than where the object was last hidden

Question 23

A-not-B error

Answer 23

Tendency of infants to reach where an object was located earlier rather than where the object was last hidden

Question 24

Explicit (Declarative)

Answer 24

With conscious recall, in hippocampus, general knowledge, experienced events

Question 25

Implicit (NonDeclarative)

Answer 25

Without conscious recall, Other brain and cerebellum, motor/cognitive and classical conditioning