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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT LIFESPAN CH 3 EXAM
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Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation
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-Guarantee passing score -32 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Chomsky would attribute Susan's quick acquisition of grammatical rules to her _____.
Answer:
language acquisition device
Question 2: According to Chomsky's theory of language acquisition, _____.
Answer:
children have an inborn ability to learn language Question 3: __ is the understanding that objects continue to exist when they cannot be seen.
Answer:
Object permanence Question 4: Baby Hugh enjoys playing with his father's keys, but when his father takes them away, Hugh does not search for them. Piaget would say that is because Hugh does not understand _____.
Answer:
object permanence
Question 5: Lyrissa lives in Africa. She is 9 months old and does not weigh enough because of malnutrition. Her tissues are wasting away. Lyrissa suffers from _____.
Answer:
marasmus
Question 6: An example of a gross motor skill is _____.
Answer:
hopping on one foot Question 7: Neurons in the brain meet at "intersections" called _____.
Answer:
synapses
Question 8: During the sensorimotor stage, the child's main task is to _____.
Answer:
use senses and motor skills to understand the world
Question 9: The most lethal disease for children in the past was _____.
Answer:
smallpox Question 10: On average, children begin saying recognizable words at around _____ months of age.
Answer:
12 Question 11: Clara's weight is in the 30th percentile. This means that _____ percent of all babies her age weigh less than she does and _____ percent of all babies her age weigh more than she does.
Answer:
30:70
Question 12: Gross motor skills emerge directly from reflexes and proceed in a _____ and proximodistal direction.
Answer:
cephalocaudal
Question 13: Newborns' sense of touch allows them to _____.
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be comforted by their caregiver Question 14: The sense that is the least functional at birth is an infant's _____.
Answer:
vision Question 15: The use of prefixes, suffixes, intonation, verb forms, pronouns, and other parts of speech is known as _____.
Answer:
grammar
Question 16: Slow-wave sleep _____.
Answer:
increases markedly at about 3 or 4 months of age
Question 17: Jordan's weight is in the 50th percentile. This means that _____.
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50 percent of children his age weigh less than he does Question 18: Studies comparing breast-feeding to bottle-feeding show that _____.
Answer:
breast-fed babies have fewer allergies and stomach upsets Question 19: According to the sociocultural perspective, the focus of early communication for infants younger than 12 months is _____
Answer:
emotion Question 20: In which of Piaget's sensorimotor stages do infants adapt, anticipate, and become more deliberate in responding to people and objects?
Answer:
stage 4
Question 21: Research has found that child-directed speech is _____.
Answer:
spoken in a high pitch with simple vocabulary and short sentences Question 22: Brain functions that depend on particular, variable experiences and therefore may or may not develop in a particular infant are called _____.
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experience-dependent Question 23: Small movements made by fingers and toes are known as _____ motor skills.
Answer:
fine Question 24: Parents are told that their newborn is in the 90th percentile for height. This means that their child is _____.
Answer:
above average in height.Question 25: James uses the word more to mean "I want another cookie." In this case, more is a(n) _____.
Answer:
holophrase
Question 26: Binocular vision appears between _____ months of age.
Answer:
- and 4
Question 27: The average number of meaningful sound combinations in a typical sentence is called _____.
Answer:
mean length of utterance Question 28: According to Piaget, a stage-five sensorimotor baby is like a _____.
Answer:
scientist who experiments to see what will happen
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