Quiz 3

A  Uninhibited disposition

B  Parental sensitivity

C  Extraversion

D  Genetic predisposition

A  parallel play.

B  imitation.

C  face-to-face play.

D  joint attention.

A  Secure attachment

B  Goodness of fit

C  Social referencing

D  Reciprocal socialization

A  temporal

B  occipital

C  parietal

D  frontal

A  symmetry

B  disequilibrium

C  equilibrium

D  disturbance

A  the grasping reflex

B  the Moro reflex

C  the sucking reflex

D  the rooting reflex

A  the bright blue square

B  the yellow circle

C  the drawing of a face

D  the white oval

A  very hungry.

B  very angry.

C  experiencing embarrassment.

D  experiencing pain.

A  With increased locomotor skills, babies actively seek contact with regular caregivers, such as the mother or father.

B  Strangers, siblings, and parents are equally likely to elicit smiling or crying from the infant.

C  Children become aware of others’ feelings, goals, and plans and begin to take these into account in forming their own actions.

D  Attachment becomes focused on one figure, usually the primary caregiver, as the baby gradually learns to distinguish familiar from unfamiliar people.

A  reception.

B  sensation.

C  perception.

D  transition.

A  orienting response and tracking method.

B  high-amplitude sucking method.

C  habituation and dishabituation method.

D  visual preference method.

A  It consists of the medulla, cerebellum, and pons.

B  It insulates axons and helps electrical signals travel faster down the axon.

C  It includes the tectum, the tegmentum, and the cerebral peduncles.

D  It is the portion of the brain that is farthest from the spinal cord.

A  Learned

B  Major

C  Fine

D  Gross

A  insecure resistant.

B  insecure avoidant.

C  insecure antisocial.

D  securely attached.

A  Reflexive behavior

B  Alignment

C  Cognitive development

D  Posture

A  grasping

B  fencing

C  rooting

D  Moro

A  the chemical interactions in synapses that connect axons and dendrites

B  the release of neurotransmitters into the cell body of a neuron by terminal buttons

C  the formation of a layer of fat cells that encases many axons

D  the ferrying of information across neurotransmitters by a synapse

A  excessive parental involvement in sleep-related interactions with the infant.

B  extrinsic factors such as high levels of traffic noise.

C  intrinsic factors such as an alcoholic mother.

D  parental negligence with regard to sleep-related interactions with the infant.

A  continual correcting of children’s syntax by parents.

B  special way parents speak to each other in front of their children.

C  ability of parents to understand their children’s holographic speech.

D  unique way that parents (and others) talk to babies.

A  physical comfort and sensitive care

B  feeding and physical comfort

C  oral satisfaction and physical comfort

D  contact comfort and feeding

A  phase 2

B  phase 4

C  phase 1

D  phase 3

A  rough-and-tumble play

B  peek-a-boo games

C  pat-a-cake games

D  reciprocal socialization

A  It has been proven that social agents and contexts seldom influence an infant’s secure attachment and thereby later development.

B  Studies have shown that a mother’s negative emotional reactions (anger and anxiety) to her infant’s crying do not have an effect either on the child’s attachment security or on the child’s psychological development later in life.

C  It has been observed and proven in all cultures that secure attachment is the least common factor to influence an infant’s later development.

D  Biologically based factors such as genes and temperament have not been given adequate consideration on how they influence an infant’s secure attachment and thereby later development.

A  in the first three months after birth.

B  toward the middle of the second year of life.

C  toward the end of the first year of life.

D  in the first six months after birth.

A  an easy child.

B  a slow child.

C  a difficult child.

D  a slow-to-warm-up child.

A  sensation

B  cognition

C  suckling

D  communication

A  bottom—the feet—with physical growth and differentiation of features gradually working their way up to the head.

B  center of the body and then moves toward the extremities.

C  top—the head—with physical growth and differentiation of features gradually working their way down from top to bottom.

D  spinal cord and then expands out to the limbs and head.

A  top brain

B  forebrain

C  midbrain

D  hindbrain

A  parietal

B  frontal

C  occipital

D  temporal

A  brain electron sampling (BES)

B  electroencephalogram (EEG)

C  positron-emission tomography (PET) scans

D  magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)