Check Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

21 .
Describe a health risk associated with sleeping practices and one way to prevent it.
22 .
Describe three patterns of growth seen during infancy and toddlerhood.
23 .
Explain the process by which a child learns to walk. What existing gross motor skills are needed?
24 .
Explain the process by which a child learns to self-feed. What existing fine motor skills are needed?
25 .
What is intermodal perception? Explain your answer using at least one example.
26 .
What major changes occur in color vision during the first year of life?
27 .
Describe Piaget’s circular reactions (primary, secondary, tertiary).
28 .
Describe two ways in which we study infant attention and memory. How can we tell what infants are paying attention to?
29 .
Describe the major milestones in language development that occur during the first two years of life.
30 .
How does the nativist approach to language development differ from the learning approach?
31 .
Describe the developmental progression of language development in the earliest years of life.