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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 _____.
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 _____. | marasmus |
| According to Chomsky's theory of language acquisition, _____. | children have an inborn ability to learn language |
| During the sensorimotor stage, the child's main task is to _____. | use senses and motor skills to understand the world |
| The dozing, half-awake state often seen in newborns is called _____. | transitional sleep |
| The use of prefixes, suffixes, intonation, verb forms, pronouns, and other parts of speech is known as _____. | grammar |
| On average, children begin saying recognizable words at around _____ months of age. | 12 |
| Jordan's weight is in the 50th percentile. This means that _____. | 50 percent of children his age weigh less than he does |
| __ is the understanding that objects continue to exist when they cannot be seen. | Object permanence |
| Studies comparing breast-feeding to bottle-feeding show that _____. | breast-fed babies have fewer allergies and stomach upsets |
| James uses the word more to mean “I want another cookie.” In this case, more is a(n) _____. | holophrase |
| According to the sociocultural perspective, the focus of early communication for infants younger than 12 months is _____ | emotion |
| According to Piaget, a stage-five sensorimotor baby is like a _____. | scientist who experiments to see what will happen |
| An example of a gross motor skill is _____. | hopping on one foot |
| Parents are told that their newborn is in the 90th percentile for height. This means that their child is _____. | above average in height. |
| Which statement describes the brain's cortex? | It makes up the outer layers of the brain and is responsible for thinking, feeling, and sensing |
| According to Piaget, a stage-five sensorimotor baby is like a _____. | scientist who experiments to see what will happen |
| Darius is learning the names of two or three new objects or events every day. This rapid increase in vocabulary is referred to as the _____ explosion. | naming |
| 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. | 30:70 |
| Newborns' sense of touch allows them to _____. | be comforted by their caregiver |
| Gross motor skills emerge directly from reflexes and proceed in a _____ and proximodistal direction. | cephalocaudal |
| The average number of meaningful sound combinations in a typical sentence is called _____. | mean length of utterance |
| Chomsky would attribute Susan's quick acquisition of grammatical rules to her _____. | language acquisition device |
| Piaget called an infant's first period of cognitive development _____. | sensorimotor intelligence |
| The most lethal disease for children in the past was _____. | smallpox |
| Research has found that child-directed speech is _____. | spoken in a high pitch with simple vocabulary and short sentences |
| In which of Piaget's sensorimotor stages do infants adapt, anticipate, and become more deliberate in responding to people and objects? | stage 4 |
| Small movements made by fingers and toes are known as _____ motor skills. | fine |
| Binocular vision appears between _____ months of age. | 2 and 4 |
| Neurons in the brain meet at “intersections” called _____. | synapses |
| The sense that is the least functional at birth is an infant's _____. | vision |
| Slow-wave sleep _____. | increases markedly at about 3 or 4 months of age |
| 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 _____. | object permanence |
| Brain functions that depend on particular, variable experiences and therefore may or may not develop in a particular infant are called _____. | experience-dependent |
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