Chapter 3 - The First Two Years

Jordan's weight is in the 50th percentile. This means that:

The human body is equipped to protect the brain when malnutrition temporarily affects body growth. This protective feature is known as:

Brain cells are called:

The last part of the brain to mature is the:

A life-threatening condition that occurs when infants are shaken back and forth sharply and quickly is called:

An abusive caregiver shakes an infant to get her to stop crying. The infant stops crying. Why?

Approximately how many hours per day does the average newborn spend asleep?

At what point in development is the sense of hearing already quite acute?

In terms of visual acuity, newborns:

The sense that is the least developed at birth is an infant's:

By three months of age, babies look closely at the eyes and mouth when studying faces. This change in focus is due to:

Due to smell recognition, babies prefer to sleep:

Newborns' sense of touch allows them to:

The learned ability to move and control some parts of the body is referred to as:

Most infants are able to inch forward on their bellies by the age of____months.

On average, children begin to walk independently at approximately?

What three factors contribute to the ability to walk?

Most babies learn to grasp and hold onto objects by about _____ months old.

What is one effect of lower infant mortality rates?

When the immune system is primed to resist a particular disease, the process is called:

When children are immunized, they contribute to the protection of others. This is referred to as:

A hypothesis that has been repeatedly disproved is that the MMR vaccine causes:

Why are breast-fed babies less likely to contract infectious diseases than bottle-fed babies?

Studies comparing breast-feeding to bottle-feeding show that:

A child who is too short for his or her age due to severe malnutrition is suffering from a condition called:

When a child is more than two standard deviations underweight for his or her age, the child is suffering from a condition called:

. By 10 months of age, Alan has a vocabulary of a dozen words. B. F. Skinner would have attributed Alan's rapid speech development mainly to: