CPSY 3301 QUIZ 3 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026
Shanti notices that her week-old infant has several "soft spots" on his skull. When she calls her
pediatrician, she is MOST likely told to: - Answers purchase a helmet-like device to help protect her
baby's skull while the bones harden.
bring the baby in for immediate medical attention as such spots are indications of serious
developmental concerns.
relax because these spots will allow for positional skull flattening as her baby ages.
-relax because these spots are nature's way of allowing the skull to accommodate brain growth.
Alicia is concerned that swaddling her baby is unsafe. Which of the following would be the BEST
response? - Answers Tell her not to be concerned because swaddling has very little effect on infants'
behaviors.
Tell her that her concern is valid because swaddling can lead babies to become very agitated due to
their inability to move their arms and legs.
Tell her that her concern is valid because swaddling interferes with babies' reflex responses.
-Tell her not to be concerned because swaddling helps babies to organize their behavior and become
calmer.
Infants form expectancies about connections between events in their environments through: -
Answers habituation.
imitation.
-classical conditioning.
operant conditioning.
During the first week of life, infants sleep about how many hours per day? - Answers 20
12
-16
22
When a child jerks away her hand after she has touched a hot stove, her reaction is due to: - Answers
cephalocaudal developmental patterns.
growth in her cerebral cortex and increasing myelination.
development in her occipital and parietal lobes.
-impulses being carried between her axons, dendrites, and synapses.
Which of following has occurred when a newborn stops attending to a repeatedly presented
stimulus? - Answers -habituation
classical conditioning
modeling
operant conditioning
Babies who are held more: - Answers spend more time fussing and crying.
-spend less time fussing and crying.
suffer higher rates of SIDS.
develop voluntary crying behaviors sooner.
Which of the following reflexes has disappeared by the time an infant is 3 to 6 months of age? -
Answers breathing
eyeblink
sucking
-rooting
Studies of newborn infants' auditory preferences demonstrate that: - Answers -infants prefer the
sound of the human voice to other types of sounds.
infants prefer to hear foreign languages more than their own language.
infants prefer low-pitched voices to high-pitched voices.
infants' hearing is not acute enough for them to demonstrate preferences for particular categories of
sound.
In classical conditioning, a conditional response is: - Answers -elicited by a conditional stimulus.
identical in form to an unconditional response.
performed after an unconditional stimulus has been presented.
followed by a conditional stimulus.
Which of the following is an example of habituation? - Answers A newborn cries because she is
hungry.
Shanti notices that her week-old infant has several "soft spots" on his skull. When she calls her
pediatrician, she is MOST likely told to: - Answers purchase a helmet-like device to help protect her
baby's skull while the bones harden.
bring the baby in for immediate medical attention as such spots are indications of serious
developmental concerns.
relax because these spots will allow for positional skull flattening as her baby ages.
-relax because these spots are nature's way of allowing the skull to accommodate brain growth.
Alicia is concerned that swaddling her baby is unsafe. Which of the following would be the BEST
response? - Answers Tell her not to be concerned because swaddling has very little effect on infants'
behaviors.
Tell her that her concern is valid because swaddling can lead babies to become very agitated due to
their inability to move their arms and legs.
Tell her that her concern is valid because swaddling interferes with babies' reflex responses.
-Tell her not to be concerned because swaddling helps babies to organize their behavior and become
calmer.
Infants form expectancies about connections between events in their environments through: -
Answers habituation.
imitation.
-classical conditioning.
operant conditioning.
During the first week of life, infants sleep about how many hours per day? - Answers 20
12
-16
22
When a child jerks away her hand after she has touched a hot stove, her reaction is due to: - Answers
cephalocaudal developmental patterns.
growth in her cerebral cortex and increasing myelination.
development in her occipital and parietal lobes.
-impulses being carried between her axons, dendrites, and synapses.
Which of following has occurred when a newborn stops attending to a repeatedly presented
stimulus? - Answers -habituation
classical conditioning
modeling
operant conditioning
Babies who are held more: - Answers spend more time fussing and crying.
-spend less time fussing and crying.
suffer higher rates of SIDS.
develop voluntary crying behaviors sooner.
Which of the following reflexes has disappeared by the time an infant is 3 to 6 months of age? -
Answers breathing
eyeblink
sucking
-rooting
Studies of newborn infants' auditory preferences demonstrate that: - Answers -infants prefer the
sound of the human voice to other types of sounds.
infants prefer to hear foreign languages more than their own language.
infants prefer low-pitched voices to high-pitched voices.
infants' hearing is not acute enough for them to demonstrate preferences for particular categories of
sound.
In classical conditioning, a conditional response is: - Answers -elicited by a conditional stimulus.
identical in form to an unconditional response.
performed after an unconditional stimulus has been presented.
followed by a conditional stimulus.
Which of the following is an example of habituation? - Answers A newborn cries because she is
hungry.
