Child Development Exam 2- Ch.5-7
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
If a child younger than the age of about 4 or 5 was to have a large portion of their brain removed
in a necessary surgery, ______. - Correct answers✔their brains are plastic enough that cells
intended to serve one function could be turned into cells that serve another function
Experience-expectant brain development occurs ______. - Correct answers✔when we encounter
experiences that occur as a normal part of development
Information from the environment that is picked up by our sense organs is called ______, and the
meaning that our brain attached to that information is called ______. - Correct
answers✔Sensations;Perceptions
Infants develop a preference for the taste of their local food because - Correct answers✔Mothers
milk and amniotic fluid take on some of the flavor of foods the mother eats
The average infant __ by 5 months of age and ___ by her first birthday day - Correct
answers✔Doubles her birth weight; increases her length by 50%
Eleanor Gibsons research on infants and the visual cliff founds that infants - Correct
answers✔can perceive depth, but do not show fear of the drop off until they can crawl
A father loves it when his newborn clenches his index finger. You dont have the heart to tell him
that is not him, it is the - Correct answers✔Palmar Grasp
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
If a child younger than the age of about 4 or 5 was to have a large portion of their brain removed
in a necessary surgery, ______. - Correct answers✔their brains are plastic enough that cells
intended to serve one function could be turned into cells that serve another function
Experience-expectant brain development occurs ______. - Correct answers✔when we encounter
experiences that occur as a normal part of development
Information from the environment that is picked up by our sense organs is called ______, and the
meaning that our brain attached to that information is called ______. - Correct
answers✔Sensations;Perceptions
Infants develop a preference for the taste of their local food because - Correct answers✔Mothers
milk and amniotic fluid take on some of the flavor of foods the mother eats
The average infant __ by 5 months of age and ___ by her first birthday day - Correct
answers✔Doubles her birth weight; increases her length by 50%
Eleanor Gibsons research on infants and the visual cliff founds that infants - Correct
answers✔can perceive depth, but do not show fear of the drop off until they can crawl
A father loves it when his newborn clenches his index finger. You dont have the heart to tell him
that is not him, it is the - Correct answers✔Palmar Grasp
