PSYC 320 5-7 Speedback

The autostimulation theory suggests that restless sleep

A mother gently strokes her infant's forehead each time she settles down to nurse the baby. Soon the mother notices that every time the baby's forhead is stroked, he makes active sucking movements. He has been classically conditioned. The conditioned stimulus is the:

The reflex that might have helped infancts cling to their mothers in human evolutionary past is called the

Caregivers typically _____ when their babies imitate facial gestures and actions.

The proximodistal trend of motor development would predict that infants cannot

Operant conditioning is usually used to explain ______ responses.

What kinds of patterns do newborns prefer?

What statement might someone make who is objectionable to individuals favoring the sensitive period position?

Which sense is the least well developed in the neonate?

What are the practical implications of the differences in developmental rates between species?

According to the "Milestones" chart in the text, the gross motor skill of dribbling with relaxed, continuous, even stroking is achieved in the age range of:

Which hormone is responsible for central nervous system development and body growth?

A distance curve:

Cells responsible for myelinization of neural fibers defines:

Boys reach the peak of their height spurt at about age:

In Piaget's theory, _____ accounts for changes in schemes.

During the process of lateralization, spatial abilities in most individuals become localized in the:

What are true statements about Piaget's theory of stages?

When Jimmie repeatedly drops objects from a high chair and then looks at his parent, he is displaying:

Transitive inference is defined as:

______ is a type of reasoning in which adolescents evaluate the logic of verbal statements without inferring to real-world circumstances.

Intersubjectivity reminds us that

As Piaget uses the term, egocentrism refers to the

Reciprocal teaching occurs when

According to behaviorists, what is a true about soothing a baby's cry?

The cephalocaudal trend would predict that infants can

What are some infant states of arousal?

A growth curve that plots the average amount of growth at each yearly interval for a sample of children defines the term:

Over the past century, secular trends in physical growth have shown children in industrialized nations to be taller and heavier than their parents and grandparents were as children. According to the text, what do biologists believe the cause of this to be?

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