Part 1 - Advanced Child Development

Brain research on infants has noted most activity occurs in the _____ centers.

• thinking and memory

• vision and motor

• vision and auditory

• vision and perception

Perceptual learning during infancy does NOT involve _____.

• organizing information that comes through the senses.

• how fast babies organize information

• the way babies react to different stimuli

• giving names to people and objects

Babies do NOT prefer ____.

• highly complex over moderately complex objectives

• slow-moving over stable objects

• patterned over solid-colored objects

• 3-D over 2-D objects

In the first stage of intellectual development, Piaget believes that infants learn primarily thought their ____.

• senses

• motor skills

• senses and motor skills

• own reasoning

Vygotsky believed that adults should help children learn tasks within their ____.

• cultures

• communities

• zones of proximal development (ZPD)

• zones of interest

During infancy, concepts do NOT change from ____.

• concrete to abstract

• simple to complex

• inaccurate to accurate

• class to subclass

Object permanence refers to ____.

• the concept that an object stays the same from one time to the next

• the ability to tell how far away an object is

• the concept that objects are the same even if they look different from different perspectives or distances

• the ability to realize that people, objects and places still exist even when they are no longer perceived

An example of babbling is ____.

• a monotone speaking voice

• repeating the same vowel sound

• a series of combined consonant and vowel sounds

• a "word" understood only by a baby's parent(s)

First words are formed most directly as a result of ____.

• cooing

• gesturing

• simple babbling

• reduplication babbling

Which of the following statements about an enriched environment is NOT true?

• Adults provide learning experiences for their babies soon after birth.

• Adults should do planned activities regardless of the baby's interest in them.

• Adults should make constant judgements about the baby's interest in activities.

• Activities should occur during daily routines.