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Question 31

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Amanda is six days old. Which of the following statements about Amanda's hearing is true?

A) Amanda is more sensitive to the pitch of sound than an adult.
B) Amanda is more able to hear low-pitched sounds than high-pitched sounds.
C) Amanda is more able to hear high-pitched sounds than low-pitched sounds.
D) Amanda cannot determine the general location from where a sound is coming.

E) None of the above
F) C) and D)

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Question 32

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Kevin loves to say, "Da, da, da, da" over and over again. This is an example of what type of communication?

A) Crying
B) Cooing
C) Babbling
D) Gesturing

E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

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Connor is part of an infant study where he is placed in a crib. A ribbon is tied to his ankle and when he kicks that leg it makes a mobile move. A week later, Connor is brought back to the lab and as soon as he is placed in the same crib he starts kicking. Connor is learning through:

In the first several days of life, most newborns lose _____ of their body weight before they adjust to feeding by sucking, swallowing, and digesting.

_____ is a central feature of cognitive development, pertaining to all situations in which an individual retains information over time.

_____ is involved in speech production, whereas _____ is involved in language comprehension.

Which of the following statements is FALSE about shaken baby syndrome?

For cognitive change to occur, what two processes must work in concert as the child experiences considerable movement between the states of cognitive equilibrium and disequilibrium?

A _____ is a layer of fat cells that encases and insulates many axons and helps electrical signals travel faster down the axon.

Rebecca says, "Milk spill." Her grandfather replies, "Yes, the milk spilled on the floor." This is an example of:

A method used to study sensation and perception in infants that measures the length of time infants attend to different stimuli in order to determine whether infants can distinguish one stimulus from another.

As they walk in the park together, Damon's dad points out various objects to him-flowers, birds, butterflies, slides, swings, vehicles, and so on-and helps Damon name each of them. Damon's dad is using _____ to help his son learn language.

_____ refers to the process of encasing axons with fat cells.

Which statement is TRUE regarding infants' perception of occluded objects?

A form of communication that is based on a system of symbols is called:

One of the earliest signs of brain specialization is that newborns show greater electrical brain activity in the left hemisphere when:

Bella knows the names of all the states that comprise the United States. The names of the states are a part of Bella's _____ memory.

The newborn's vision is estimated to be _____ on the Snellen eye examination chart.

This linguist proposed that humans are biologically prewired to learn language, and proposed that infants are born into the world with a language acquisition device that enables them to detect certain features and rules of language.

When babies engage in physical activity or use language, some synaptic connections will be strengthened, while the unused ones are replaced by other pathways or disappear. A neuroscientist would identify this process as: