DEP 2004 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWERS
experience dependent brain functions - ✔✔ brain functions depend on particular, variable
experiences and therefore may or may not develop in a particular infant
visual preferences in infancy - ✔✔ newborns are legally blind
only focus on things between 4-30 inches
by two months they recognize details
2-4 months both eyes focus on a single thing
gross motor skills - ✔✔ large body movement
walking and jumping
sequence of gross motor skill development - ✔✔ 1. sit unsupported - 6 months
2. stand holding on - 7.4 months
3. crawl - 8 months
4. stand not holding - 10.8 months
5. walk well - 12 months
6. walk backward - 15 months
7. run - 18 months
8. jump up - 26 months
, object permanence - ✔✔ realization that objects still exist when they can no longer be seen,
touched or heard
deferred imitation - ✔✔ a sequence in which an infant first perceives something done by
someone else and then performs the same action hours or even days later
primary circular reactions - ✔✔ stage 1- reflexes
stage 2- first acquired adaptations
involves the infants own body
infant sense motion, sucking, noise, and other stimuli and tries to understand them
stage 1 of cognitive development - ✔✔ reflexes (birth-1 month)
soon reflexes become deliberate
sensation leads to perception
stage 2 of cognitive development - ✔✔ first acquired adaptations
1-4 months
adaptations of reflexes
sucking- new info taken in by senses and respond to
begins because reflexes adjust to whatever response they elicit
secondary circular reactions - ✔✔ stage 3- making interesting events last
COMPLETE ANSWERS
experience dependent brain functions - ✔✔ brain functions depend on particular, variable
experiences and therefore may or may not develop in a particular infant
visual preferences in infancy - ✔✔ newborns are legally blind
only focus on things between 4-30 inches
by two months they recognize details
2-4 months both eyes focus on a single thing
gross motor skills - ✔✔ large body movement
walking and jumping
sequence of gross motor skill development - ✔✔ 1. sit unsupported - 6 months
2. stand holding on - 7.4 months
3. crawl - 8 months
4. stand not holding - 10.8 months
5. walk well - 12 months
6. walk backward - 15 months
7. run - 18 months
8. jump up - 26 months
, object permanence - ✔✔ realization that objects still exist when they can no longer be seen,
touched or heard
deferred imitation - ✔✔ a sequence in which an infant first perceives something done by
someone else and then performs the same action hours or even days later
primary circular reactions - ✔✔ stage 1- reflexes
stage 2- first acquired adaptations
involves the infants own body
infant sense motion, sucking, noise, and other stimuli and tries to understand them
stage 1 of cognitive development - ✔✔ reflexes (birth-1 month)
soon reflexes become deliberate
sensation leads to perception
stage 2 of cognitive development - ✔✔ first acquired adaptations
1-4 months
adaptations of reflexes
sucking- new info taken in by senses and respond to
begins because reflexes adjust to whatever response they elicit
secondary circular reactions - ✔✔ stage 3- making interesting events last
