The following is true about Chomsky's theory of language acquisition:

According to Jean Piaget, the two elements of adaptation are:

According to Piaget, the stage-five infant is like:

What is the prime focus of pleasure in early infancy according to psychoanalytic theory

What is the awareness of things—responding to people and objects called?

An increased level of cortisol is associated with an infant's:

Which of the following statements is true about babbling

Brain weight triples in the first two years of life primarily because of the growth of:

Which of the following statements is true breast milk

By age _____ children reach half their adult height

The main task during the sensorimotor stage is to

Hugh enjoys playing with your keys. When you take them away and place them in your pocket, Hugh does not search for them. Piaget would say that Hugh does not understand:

If we place a dot of rouge on an 18 month old's nose and stand the child in front of a mirror, she may then touch her nose. This shows that the child has some:

In Erikson's theory, the infant's earliest task is described as that of:

Jan's mother calls him “high strung” because he is disturbed by even the slightest noise, is very hard to distract, and extremely fussy. The New York Longitudinal Study would call him:

Piaget called the active intellectual functioning of infants:

Secure attachment makes a toddler:

Which of the following demonstration sensation

The area in the brain that plans, anticipates, and controls impulses is the last part of the brain mature. This area is:

At age ___ an average child can walk without assistance of a guardian

The biological protection of the brain when malnutrition temporarily affects body growth is known as:

What do you call the frontal areas of the cortex

What do you call the nerve cells of the brain

The Piagetian sensorimotor stage, new means through active experimentation is in:

The process by which underused neurons are inactivated is known as:

The second "crisis of life," according to Erikson, is:

The text indicates that one of the possible reasons that growing infants sleep as much as they do is that:

The baby exhibits _____ when a baby is upset because a caregiver is leaving

According to Piage, _______ is when we revamp our old ways of thinking because of new information

When the body stops growing but the brain does not because nutrition is temporarily inadequate

Anna's pediatrician informs her parents that Anna's one year old brain is exhibiting transient exuberance. In response to this news, Anna's parents;

Three week old Nathan should have the least difficulty focusing on the sight of:

When are the nerve cells that a human brain will ever need become present

Six month old Sarah sucks harder on a nipple, evidences a change in heart rate, or stares longer at one image than at another when presented with a change of stimulus. This indicates that she:,Six month old Sarah sucks harder on a nipple, evidences a change in heart rate, or stares longer at one image than at another when presented with a change of stimulus. This indicates that she:,

Infant day care is of high quality if caregivers emphasize, among other things:,,