Infant Development

The Swiss psychologist who said that children learn by exploring on their own in a stimulating environment was

• Erik Erikson

• Harry Harlow

• Jean Piaget

• Sigmund Freud

The first stage of Piaget's "Stages of Cognitive Development", during which infants learn through their senses, is called

• the preoperational stage

• the problem solving stage

• the formal operations stage

• the sensorimotor stage

During the first year of life, babies explore their world and learn mostly through

• reading

• their senses

• Cocomelon

• repitition

Which part of their body do babies most commonly use to further investigate new objects?

• their mouth

• their feet

• their nose

• their ears

Sensory play can help babies learn to recognize similarities and differences between sounds. This ability is known as ...

• tactile stimulation

• spatial

  understanding

• auditory discrimination

• motor development

Sensory play can help an infant develop the ability to perform movements with the hands while being guided by the eyes, otherwise known as

• gross motor skills

• depth perception

• tactile stimulation

• hand-eye coordination

Through sensory play, infants can learn that things happen because something prompted them to. This concept is known as

• cause and effect

• reduplication

• spatial relations

• visual acuity

For baby to develop fully, which of the following senses must be stimulated regularly?

• sight

• hearing

• touch

• smell

• all of them!

An environment that offers baby many chances to learn is called a(n)

• deciduous environment

• enriched environment

• controlled environment

• negative environmnet

True or False: Experiences and the quailty of care we have as infants directly impacts the physical structure of our brain?

• True

• False