Quiz 3

A  Genetic predisposition

B  Extraversion

C  Uninhibited disposition

D  Parental sensitivity

A  imitation.

B  joint attention.

C  face-to-face play.

D  parallel play.

A  Reciprocal socialization

B  Social referencing

C  Goodness of fit

D  Secure attachment

A  temporal

B  occipital

C  parietal

D  frontal

A  symmetry

B  equilibrium

C  disturbance

D  disequilibrium

A  the Moro reflex

B  the grasping reflex

C  the rooting reflex

D  the sucking reflex

A  the bright blue square

B  the yellow circle

C  the white oval

D  the drawing of a face

A  very angry.

B  very hungry.

C  experiencing embarrassment.

D  experiencing pain.

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

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

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

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

A  transition.

B  reception.

C  perception.

D  sensation.

A  orienting response and tracking method.

B  high-amplitude sucking method.

C  visual preference method.

D  habituation and dishabituation method.

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

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

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

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

A  Learned

B  Gross

C  Major

D  Fine

A  securely attached.

B  insecure antisocial.

C  insecure avoidant.

D  insecure resistant.

A  Posture

B  Cognitive development

C  Alignment

D  Reflexive behavior

A  rooting

B  grasping

C  fencing

D  Moro

A  the ferrying of information across neurotransmitters by a synapse

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

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

D  the chemical interactions in synapses that connect axons and dendrites

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

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

C  intrinsic factors such as an alcoholic mother.

D  extrinsic factors such as high levels of traffic noise.

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

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

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

D  continual correcting of children’s syntax by parents.

A  contact comfort and feeding

B  physical comfort and sensitive care

C  oral satisfaction and physical comfort

D  feeding and physical comfort

A  phase 4

B  phase 3

C  phase 2

D  phase 1

A  peek-a-boo games

B  pat-a-cake games

C  rough-and-tumble play

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  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.

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  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.

A  in the first six months after birth.

B  toward the end of the first year of life.

C  in the first three months after birth.

D  toward the middle of the second year of life.

A  a slow child.

B  a difficult child.

C  a slow-to-warm-up child.

D  an easy child.

A  cognition

B  suckling

C  sensation

D  communication

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

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

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

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

A  midbrain

B  forebrain

C  top brain

D  hindbrain

A  parietal

B  temporal

C  frontal

D  occipital

A  positron-emission tomography (PET) scans

B  electroencephalogram (EEG)

C  magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

D  brain electron sampling (BES)