Infancy and Toddlerhood MCQ

In anxious attachment, the child is reluctant to explore the playroom and clings to the mother. When the mother leaves the room, the child cries for a long time. When the mother returns, this child seeks solace from the mother but continues to cry and may swat at or pull away from the mother.

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Correct Answer: True

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______ attachment can be seen by the child’s indifference to separation from the mother during the strange situation paradigm.

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Correct Answer: Avoidant

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During the ______ stage, the child develops the ability to apply logic to varied situations and use symbols to facilitate problem-solving.

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Correct Answer: Formal operations

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Toddlers often rely on ______ to help them cope with separations from parents.

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Correct Answer: Transitional objects

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Synapses are specialized nerve cells that store and transmit information; they carry sensory information to the brain, and they carry out the processes involved in thought, emotion, and action.

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Correct Answer: False

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______ is a type of play where toddlers create objects.

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Correct Answer: Constructive play

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The overproduction of synapses during critical periods during the first year of life is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Blooming

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What is Erikson’s psychosocial challenge for toddlerhood?

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Correct Answer: Autonomy versus shame and doubt

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The three components of a developmental niche are physical and social settings of daily life, customs of childcare and child-rearing, and ______.

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Correct Answer: Psychology of the caregivers

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The ______ reflex allows infants to turn their head toward a food source in order to prepare to feed when they are signaled with a stimulus to the cheek or mouth.

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Correct Answer: Tooting

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What is FMLA?

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Correct Answer: Requires businesses to provide employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for childbirth, adoption, or family illness

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Given the value that the United States places on families, the United States leads other industrialized countries in developing a policy for family leave after the birth of a child.

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Correct Answer: False

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John Bowlby believed that early relationships serve as a filter for later relationship experiences.

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Correct Answer: True

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According to the text, which of the following can cause anxiety for toddlers?

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Correct Answer: Reactions to losing self-control

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A longitudinal study of almost 16,000 infants in the United Kingdom found that Black Caribbean infants, Black African infants, and Indian infants were, on average, more advanced in motor development than White infants.

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Correct Answer: True

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Which of the following is the model for relationships developed in the earliest attachment relationship?

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Correct Answer: Working Model

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Comfort objects, such as a favorite blanket or stuffed animal, that toddlers often use to help them cope with separations from parents is called_________.

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Correct Answer: Transitional Object

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Toddler is a young child from about 8 to 30 months of age.

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Correct Answer: False

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__________ is known as the characteristical way in which individuals approach and react to people and situations.

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Correct Answer: Temperament

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Which statement is correct about Synaptogenesis?

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Correct Answer: The creation of synapses (neural connections).

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Which term is used for reduction of brain synapses to improve the efficiency of brain functioning.

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Correct Answer: Synaptic Pruning

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____________ is a period of overproduction of brain synapses during infancy, followed by a period of synapse pruning.

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Correct Answer: Synaptic Blooming

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Synapses means:

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Correct Answer: Neural connections

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Symbolic Functioning is the ability to think using symbols to represent what is not present.

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Correct Answer: True

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When an infant reacts with fear and with-drawal to unfamiliar persons, at about 9 months of age is called_________.

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Correct Answer: Stranger Anxiety

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When an infant becomes anxious at the signs of an impending separation from parents, at about 9 months of age is known as____________.

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Correct Answer: Separation Anxiety

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______________ senses responsiveness to the body’s position and sensitivity to pain.

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Correct Answer: Sensory System

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The first stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is :

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Correct Answer: Sensorimotor Stage

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Reflex is an involuntary response to a simple stimulus.

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Correct Answer: True

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Which is the second stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development.

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Correct Answer: Preoperational Stage

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The ability to understand that objects exist even when they cannot be seen is known as __________.

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Correct Answer: Object Permanence

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Neurons are a __________ cells that store and transmit information.

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Correct Answer: Specialized nerve

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____________ the creation of new neurons.

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Correct Answer: Neurogenesis

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A process by which axons and neurons are coated with a fatty substance called _________ .

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Correct Answer: Myelination

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Motor skills means control over movements of body parts.

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Correct Answer: True

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What is the name of the theory of cognition that interested in the mechanisms through which learning occurs; focuses specifically on memory encoding and retrieval.

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Correct Answer: Information Processing Theory

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The death of a child before his or her first birthday is called:

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Correct Answer: Infant Mortality

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Infant is a young child in the 2nd year of life.

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Correct Answer: False

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____________ is the fourth and final stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, generally experienced in adolescence.

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Correct Answer: Formal Operations Stage

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The cultural context into which a particular child is born that guides every aspect of the developmental process is called _________ .

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Correct Answer: Developmental Niche

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In Developmental Disability name given when a child has a lifelong impairment that results in functional limitations in some dimension or dimensions, such as:

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Delay in developing skills and abilities in infants and preschoolers is called Developmental delay.

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Correct Answer: True

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___________ is known as the third stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development.

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Correct Answer: Concrete Operations Stage

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Ability to process and store information and solve problems ?

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Correct Answer: Both

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Brain plasticity is the ability of the brain to change in response to stimuli.

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Correct Answer: True

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An enduring emotional bond between two people who are important to each other is known as _________.

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Correct Answer: Attachment

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