Chapter 4 Review

Brain development begins within ______ days of conception.

• 6

• 18

• 24

• 36

Babies babble with ______

• only sounds present in their language

• sounds from the native language and some that are not

• sounds produced in their environment

• sounds that adults cannot produce

The newborn is capable of auditory discrimination of:

• frequency change patterns

• intonation patterns

• environmental sounds

• duration and loudness levels

Regularities in stress, intonational patterns, and phonotactic organization help infants perceive:

• phonemic differences

• schemes and concepts

• word boundaries

• equillibrium

Infants can discriminate their own language(s) from other languages with the same prosodic patterns at _______________

• 1 month

• 3 months

• 5 months

• 7 months

Which of the following reflexes does NOT disappear by 6 months?

• gagging

• sucking

• phasic bite

• rooting

At 2 months of age, infants prefer to look at ____________

• an average face

• a very unusual face

• their own face in the mirror

• their siblings' faces

Jargon, by definition, contains:

• single words

• variegated babbling

• at least 3 different consonants

• adultlike prosodic patterns

Although all the brain's neurons are developed by the end of the second trimester, ____________ has barely begun.

• organization

• synaptogenesis

• attention

• touch

The first sense to develop in utero is ___________

• smell

• touch

• vision

• hearing